Though strange for an artist’s studio, the walls of Patil’s workspace do not sport any of her creations. The reason? She fears she might get tired of her own work. Also “the volume is too large for a wall to contain it all”. When she catches you looking at a small vertical frame next to a door, she laughs, “Even that’s not my work. It is there to cover the crack on the walls.”
While most graphic novelists work on someone else’s storyline, Patil does it both. “Write and draw—that’s what I can do. And my surroundings help me shape it all,” she says. ©
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