Statement about Art

I feel an art to be more than a profession a way of living life from which a person evolves as a better human being or more alive and enriched individual. An artist possesses the capability to bring about a progressive change into the particular areas of the social belief structure and adds splendour to the culture as he always envisions a step ahead than a common person.

Though I believe a gender to be secondary, there are subtle layers of visuals which relate to the inner sensibilities of being a woman artist in my artworks.

During my initial years of working in Printmaking, I focused on achieving the expertise in technique, breaking its limitations/boundaries and also controlling it to achieve the visual desired for my creative expression. I tried to break the conventional norms of monochromatic palette, technique-oriented results and limited size attempting to achieve the distinctive visuals.

Solitude of my working hours has remained the theme of interest of my early creative works. Feet appeared in these works (Etchings) to show my own (human) existence with surroundings which are intimate to me, and continued to appear intermittently with changing references.

With experiences and change in medium of expression, like mixed media, painting and also ceramics, along with Printmaking. I gradually shifted from the theme of seclusion to the changing disruptive urban environment going parallel with human existence and its slow influence on inner emotional condition. I see certain order in incompleteness of disordered, scattered, live and static forms which are breathing within the human urban landscape. These visuals with non-confined   spaces are different states of our inner moods/emotions while living in the present times. Such images of intimate nature become alive in the pictorial space in abstract vein to signify the uncertainty, weirdness and occasionally mysteries of modern human life.

 Although my inherent core of ‘aloneness’ was omnipresent, the context of the works also included self-analyzation and role of space and time in modern human relationships.

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