It is much easier to say about the process or the making of my art rather than about the art made by myself. Because ‘ART’ – especially visual art cannot or should not be translated through verbal language. So what I can do better is to tell about the experience, feelings and realizations I gained through my journey in the making of ‘art’.
I started this journey with landscape painting and gradually I inclined towards some kind of ‘abstract ‘ tendencies. It seemed to me that if I can make my painting free of any kind of known visual form that would be an achievement for me. But very soon I discovered some points – which focused contradictions within myself. First of all what we call ‘Abstract’ is not abstract at all or at least at their root. Rather it is highly dependent upon some real, concrete object or events; its expression is visually detached from that source. If that source is absent from the work on every level then the work will become a mere design and it loses its emotional appeal. And secondly, this sort of attitude leads me to some kind of Puritanism or to some extent fundamentalism. And from such standpoint I am missing so many possibilities, which is inherent in my work and my surroundings. This debate about the objective and non-objective art is a debate of Euro-centric art history; it has no direct relation with the culture of my soil.
This realization leads me to take a wider attitude for gathering the elements of my painting. Some known form or motifs came at the surface. These motifs created some interactions with the geometrical planes, textures, and brushstrokes with their structural and symbolic significance. These known motifs and the surface made a tension between the known and the unknown. This vast range of form seem to me like a straight line, on one end of which is the very known, reality ; and the other side is far from reality, the unknown. These all–the organic/known/or geometrical/unknown forms, closely placed rows of dots, human figure, triangular or mound like forms visions through multiple frames – these are elements of my work, my assets. The roots of which are various experiences of my life- very smaller part of which I could touch with my work. But if I can pursue my journey, I don’t know how many unknown possibilities will be revealed to me. From this trust I wish to continue it, which is my duty as an artist.
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