"Over the last two monsoon cycles I painted in the open in a single rural location in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra.

In these paintings, I offer sequences of small body-scale surfaces marked with the moment of contact between living matter — my alert eyes, fingers and body moving, stone pigments slipping into line — in company with swarming swallows, timed to slow dripping raindrops, sweeping hot wind, slicing seedlings, rustling grass, swerving rain, descending dusk, billowing dust, rolling python, dissolving light, piercing embers, resting creatures. My offering invites you to feel for our co-presence."

— Claire Baker