In this ongoing series Rana repurposes used plastic toys within her ecological abstract sculptures, introducing the concerns of play and motherhood into her work and addressing the inequity that children are often neglected in presentations of public and fine art. Rana began to develop the complex process of constructing these works while in Kolkata in 2019 studying a technique for creating traditional statues of the goddess Durga. Brown Mama is the inaugural work in this series, with a body of toys surrounding an armature of chicken-wire, translating and transforming a method Rana learned in India with her own materials. Recent explorations assemble a group of uniformly spray painted toys within or on the surface of a wooden form. As Rana sources the toys locally, they become a memory and time capsule of specific places, moments, and communities.

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