Kathmandu, Sept. 28 -- A writer once wrote: Our fundamental anxiety is that we will pass through the world and leave no mark. Perhaps that is why some compose poems and some draft books. Some people design plazas and some build bridges. Then there are those who hold brushes and dip them in colour; they look at the world with keen eyes and record unique interpretations on canvas. This existential anxiety also compels us to reach out to friends and share our interpretations from our situated standpoints.

This drive to create and to connect led Erina Tamrakar to Lalit Kala campus in the late 1980s to study fine arts. At Lalit Kala, she met other like-minded fellows, including Asha Dangol, who would eventually be her life partner. During tha...