Fragments of the Wild

Repurposed National Geographic magazine pages on paper
2026

This collage began long before the artwork itself.

In 2018, during the final days of my school life, my best friend and I found a bundle of National Geographic magazines outside our art classroom, waiting to be sent for recycling. Being book lovers, we asked if we could keep them and carried a few home.

Over the years, those magazines stayed with me through shifting homes and changing phases of life. In 2026, I returned to them to bring skills of composition and elements of fun together.

This mixed media work is created entirely from pages of those archived magazines.

At the center of the composition is wildlife, placed not just for its visual beauty but for one to feel closeness to nature.

Around it are layered fragments of landscapes, textures, and printed imagery reorganized into a an artwork you can call your own, your animal spirit.

The work explores preservation by allowing discarded material to continue existing differently through art.

Rather than creating imagery from scratch, these pieces are made on the original print postcards by Sonakshi Agarwal from her journey to Goa.