Saudamini Jena seated beside a framed painting with a red building, trees, and auto rickshaws in the background.

Face behind the Khidki

Saudamini Jena

Visual artist. Trained architect. Quiet observer.

"I am interested in what people don't say - and the emotions that live just beneath."

Begin the story

Hi, I'm Saudamini. I am a visual artist and trained architect, drawn to the emotional life of spaces, gestures, and small details.

Architecture taught me that structure and feeling are part of the same conversation. A wall can hold silence. A threshold can carry memory. A window can make the inner world visible without explaining it away.

I collect the things most people walk past: the way light falls at 4pm, the pause before someone speaks, the weight of an unsaid thing. Those observations become paintings.

01Artist 02Architect 03Observer

How I See

Six works, six ways of noticing what sits under the visible thing.

The titles arrive first, like clues. Each one opens into the artwork behind the feeling.

  • 01 Kshitij Longing for the horizon.
  • 02 Talaash Searching without knowing what for.
  • 03 Ghungroo Joy that has weight.
  • 04 Portal The moment before crossing.
  • 05 Kaarigari Quiet devotion to craft.
  • 06 Mannat Prayer disguised as patience.

Moving Art

A moving window into the work in the world.

This short silent piece sits between observation and making: artwork, street, body, and scale held as one small field note.

It is intentionally quieter than a film section. The page is still about the artist; the motion simply gives the work a pulse before the process begins.

Silent moving artwork, optimized from the supplied source video for browser playback.

01 / Feel

A feeling refuses to leave.

The work begins when a feeling stays longer than expected. It asks for attention before it asks for a form.

Places that shaped the work

A life seen in cities, silences, thresholds, and returns.

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Sepia illustration of the SECL Gevra coal project landscape in Chhattisgarh.

Gevra

"There was a particular quality of silence in the evenings - the kind that felt shared."

Community as first landscape; belonging as place.

Sepia illustration of DPS Bhilai with industrial skyline beyond the campus.

Bhilai

"Independence begins quietly, in small decisions no one else knows about."

Identity built in increments.

Sepia illustration of KIIT University architecture campus and Bhubaneswar temple forms.

Bhubaneswar

"Architecture taught me that structure and emotion speak the same language."

Form is never neutral.

Sepia illustration of Mumbai waterfront, skyline, and sea link.

Mumbai

"Eight million people, and somehow the loneliness had texture."

Humanity in chaos; connection and isolation.

Sepia illustration of Surat city, bridge, diamond district, and roadways.

Surat

"Solitude stopped being something that happened to me and became something I chose."

Stillness as practice.

Sepia illustration of Bengaluru with Mayo Hall, UB City, JP Nagar metro, and city traffic.

Bangalore

"The observations had been accumulating for years. They finally had somewhere to go."

Observation becoming practice.

Stay near the window

"The work is not intended to resolve emotion. Only to make it visible."

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