Banani Karmakar Bhunia (b. 1990) is a self-taught artist based in Vadodara, Gujarat, originally from West Bengal. With a background in engineering, she returned to art after motherhood, marking a transformative phase in her practice. Her work explores emotion, memory, and inner experience through experimental materials and processes. Her series The Space Between examines the fluid relationship between the inner self and external world, focusing on how perception shapes emotional and spatial experience. Using layered techniques of addition and erasure, her paintings evolve as psychological landscapes where forms emerge and dissolve. Viewing the self as dynamic and continuously shaped, her work reflects a journey from fragmentation toward quiet reconciliation. Rather than offering resolution, her practice invites reflection—creating contemplative spaces where perception slows and meaning unfolds.