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A digital artwork titled “time prevailing changes” in capital black letters across the top. The piece depicts a girl with tan skin, split down the middle. On the left side, the girl has black hair pulled into a ponytail, a red bindi in the middle of her forehead, and her eyes lined with black. She is wearing a light green outfit and a blue sash. Surrounding her is a clothing item hanging on a clothing line, a blue mop bucket with a mop, and a yellow broom and dustpan. On the right side, the girl has her black hair pulled into a higher ponytail, is wearing a red and green earring, and a green shirt with red details. Surrounding her is a stack of files, a group of heads turned towards each other talking, and a computer. Beneath the artwork is a description that goes as follows: “The following artwork is based on a real-life story of an anonymous person who comes from a poor tribal family in Gujarat, India. It shows two phases of the girl’s life. On the left hand side, she is shown in poor clothes with a bun along with bucket, broom, and clothes around. This depicts her phase when she used to do the job of sweeping and cleaning in an office. Her chores were just restricted to cleaning, and she didn’t have any post in her office. This continued till half of the covid period.” “After mid 2020 she started taking interest in other office works too. She learnt how to operate computers and started getting basic education including learning English. She also went for community meetings with her NGO team and learnt to interact with villagers. Now she participates in community liaison and networking. Her dressing style changed as per her changed role from normal clothes to modern clothes. This is all depicted on the right side with modern clothes, files, computer, and community meetings.” “Thus, during the COVID period, she upscaled herself by engaging into office work and also supported her family through increased salary. Now she has a post called office assistant along with suitable income, ready for new tasks and challenges herself with new experiences.” all in black text. Beneath the description are the words “name: Chaitali D. Sinha” in the left corner and “date: 15th May 2022” in the right corner.
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Time Prevailing Changes

Chaitali D. Sinha

It is an artwork which a lady who transformed herself from a mere office cleaner to a confident office assistant. Earlier, her work was just to look after the office (cleaning etc.) and the employees (preparing tea etc.) but now along with that, she also goes on field visits, community meetings, interacts with people, manages the documents, etc. She learnt all those skills and techniques during the COVID period. Her dedication and wish of learning is an inspiration.