Prathap modi also juxtaposes text and images in his work. trained as a printmaker, his primary interest is in ‘making’; while privileging the physical process of creation he strives to reinvent traditional material and techniques, utilizing them in a fresh and dynamic way. ‘Man, Machine, Material and Money’ examines the relationship between these four entities in a series of four mixed media panels and four books. Materiality is brought to the fore in his use of cloth, leather, wood and metal. Brass plates are individually etched and mounted on fabric; the images and text are culled from a variety of cultural sources, both indic and Western across a chronological range of historical time. Societies are looked at through media imagery that express and define them. Hand- made leather bound metal books complete the work.