Creating art is like composing music, elements come together to create a symphony for your senses. What three elements are vital to you as an artist? I try not to think of art as a number of elements that make up the whole. That would be too limiting. Instead, I think of it as an Evolution. And like in music, where each instrument and each note adds to another until a process starts to become felt, Colors and tones flow until a composition becomes visible.
My use of the contemporary material such as newspaper, photos, collage, paint, strips of aged wood and fabric allow me to communicate timeless concepts that are more so based on Buddhist philosophy. My works have an intention of equanimity that is neither a thought nor an emotion. And Truly, It is an exploration of my own social psyche. We are what we feel, and as an artist, I make that visible.
Out of your abstract series of paintings, your “Eq Redefined� series is one of our favourites, what inspired the series and its collage-like structure? My work is always driven by the desire to create meaningful content. Equanimity Redefined is my current series of paintings. Your pieces often contain Here, I have reconstructed my contemporary elements like paintings to embrace the newspapers, fabric and books, underlying order and harmonic What are your thoughts on the balance that supports the organic fact that they are time capsules in and at times chaotic nature of life. their own way? I like to think of time as the The style is created by the element that brings past, presence application of paint with a and future into a single palette knife to thin wooden perceptual field. I would want my boards, which are consequently cut art to be non-linear in that way. up into strips and collaged together The creative process is nothing more than a playful rediscovery of something that was not there before. I stop when a work of art seems somewhat but not completely complete, allowing the viewer to bring his/her own experience into it.
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