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My work for the past 5 years has been a series of expressions, oscillating in between reality and imagination using diverse mediums. I turn everyday visuals into art using my lines, colours and words. All of my work has a story to tell, ready to be heard. I use both traditional and digital mediums to create my work. But of late I seem to gravitate more towards digital art as it allows me to seamlessly experiment with my expressions and mediums. I have always expressed the current phase of life I am in, the surroundings that influence it and my experiences all along the long and never-ending journey of a self-taught artist.
I create because of this uncontrollable urge to express something that has caught my eye, an unforgettable memory or an indelible feeling. I create so that people know that there is so much beauty around and in us, all we need to do is look. I create to touch and share those emotions that get lost in this volatile digital age where feelings have the fastest expiry date. Through my art I want people to feel the emotions that they have stashed up.
I want them to experience places in ways they could imagine. I want my art to be an escape from the daily structure and routine. My art would teleport them from their childhood to their inner most desires, to their darkest thoughts and yet all of them would coexist in a colourful tapestry. I admire artists like Jean Michel Basquiat who used their art to explore the rampant issues that exist like undercurrents or artists like Jackson Pollock who revolutionised the approach to creating art.
Being a person of colour, art has been my way of gaining acceptance in a foreign land. Art transcends all barriers. My art always has a play of the most unlikely colors coexisting in visual harmony. Through my art, I also want to convey that even as people, all colors can coexist and thus transcend all kinds of mental boundaries. My recent submission was selected to be featured in a UK based art magazine as the cover story. I tried to share through my artwork and writing, how it is to lead the life of an artist.
I am currently working on a digital mixed media ‘Utopian series’ where I am trying to combine two different worlds. I am weaving together the different glimpses captured through my photography of the place, where I am currently living in Hong Kong and the small idyllic, pristine village in India that I come from. This series is an imaginative visual possibility. When I first moved countries, I felt like an outcast. Somewhere through my art I tried to find a bridge between my roots and the direction I am growing in. Through this series I aim to promote coexistence of different colours, mediums, ideologies, cultures, reality and imagination.
I want to be the living example of the fact that anyone with passion can create art, that is for everyone and is everywhere. I want to create, collaborate and unite people with art.
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