In Kanchan's art, aesthetic response can hardly be divorced from a social response as she doubts the autonomy of art and whether art can be only for art's sake. "Art occurs in a social situation, the maker and the art; both are bound by social forces that are instrumental in shaping them. I too am subject to the same law.” says Kanchan emphatically. Kanchan's personal lifescape, dilemmas, conflicts, joys and aches screened through subjective distortions inject substance into her art