T. Venkanna does not think of repetition as doing the same thing again. He thinks of it as staying with an image long enough for it to change. Sometimes figures and gestures reappear in different formats and media in his work because they are not exhausted. They keep asking to be seen again, differently.
What may appear as a scribble or an unfinished sketch is actually bits of thought being jotted down on paper before they get resolved in another format or medium.
When working in a small format, there is nowhere to hide behind scale. Every mark has to carry its own weight. Repetition becomes a kind of rhythm where the hand leads and the mind cannot plan in advance.