Though I've been painting quite a bit, I haven't had the time to update my blog lately. I have been quite busy with art shows and a zillion other projects. But in the next few posts I'll share details about the upcoming big art show I'll be participating in, and the various pieces I've been working on the past few months.
This is a piece I had come up with many months back.
This is a piece I had come up with many months back.
'Space, Time & Consciousness : Wandering in Dimensions' 30"x40" Mixed Media on Canvas
This painting represents the old and the new, our journey of traveling through space and time, and through different planes of consciousness.
The open trunk is the harbinger of memories of the old, the bicycle being a symbol of the old.
The airplane represents the new and the travel from the old to the new both in time and space. This is something every person who has traveled from one part of the world to another to start a new life identifies with. I have had this experience as an immigrant who moved to the U.S from India about 12 years back. Every time I go back home, it’s not only a travel in space but also in time as home in India represents the old to me, the life I had growing up and through adolescence.
The lady dreams on, and that’s yet another travel, through different layers of consciousness.
The bizarre planes seen around the trunk represent different dimensions of living, traveling and experiencing.
The Buddha is at the confluence of the old and the new and different planes of consciousness, representing what is permanent in the midst of it all. In a sense it stands for change being the only permanent.
This painting, to me represents the essence of existence and experience.
The open trunk is the harbinger of memories of the old, the bicycle being a symbol of the old.
The airplane represents the new and the travel from the old to the new both in time and space. This is something every person who has traveled from one part of the world to another to start a new life identifies with. I have had this experience as an immigrant who moved to the U.S from India about 12 years back. Every time I go back home, it’s not only a travel in space but also in time as home in India represents the old to me, the life I had growing up and through adolescence.
The lady dreams on, and that’s yet another travel, through different layers of consciousness.
The bizarre planes seen around the trunk represent different dimensions of living, traveling and experiencing.
The Buddha is at the confluence of the old and the new and different planes of consciousness, representing what is permanent in the midst of it all. In a sense it stands for change being the only permanent.
This painting, to me represents the essence of existence and experience.
2 comments:
Sumi, I feel like I have been seeing your work from a while (for as long as I've known Sindhu!)- even though I may not have seen most of them in person. So, when I saw this painting, I felt something has definitely changed in your work. So that made me really eager to share my thoughts! :)
This work is still very very you...the bold blue and orange palette, the figure, the textury-feel etc. And it is amazing too that you found all that you-ness almost from the very start. But this painting, I would say, just goes on to say that you now have a language that is sophisticated. At least for me, you have struck that perfect balance of telling and leaving unsaid (especially loved the painted over and not painted into plane). Visually, it is still you but in its expressiveness, it is remarkably new. The various elements in the vocabulary you always had have begun to interact in creative ways suddenly. Not that we ever doubted your artistic language...but to me, this is one of those, how should I say... it-all-comes-together and falls into place kind of painting! This one work makes a lot of your earlier works look like snippets of this ability. I'm so excited to see where you will go!
Thank you so much Deepthi! That was a huge complement. It indeed came about as a bold attempt to simply express different elements of my rumination without much thought to how it will be perceived.
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