I work with common moods and emotions that everyone feels at some point and express them through a more permanent point of view. The works are based on real-life incidents, memories and scenarios. These are merely reshaped or reorganized and rearranged parts of the real world slightly distorted to match with a dreamlike sense of the past experiences or a future hope. This documentation of simple mundane elements evolves into a new experience for the viewers and develops into an experiment to create a more relatable state of mind with communicative intent.
My relationship with different perceptions and perspectives of concepts developed a lot during the past few years. I started looking at conventional materials in a more critical and intuitive way. This helped me to recognize a way of connecting people through their individual experiences and depictions, even of non-living objects or certain scenarios, while crossing a pathway of the interpretation of similar sets of emotions. I had been working on a few series of small works using charcoal, ink and acrylic. These series put together could also be recognized as one whole series of works considering the common elements represented in almost all of them. Mostly indicative of personal growth and some sets of self-realizations, these works also include simplified representations of my dreams and nightmares. I have used linear headless figurative drawings as a depiction of the self in a subconscious state. The monochromatic tones in the ‘Void’ series express the mundane everyday nature of the common moods and feelings, with a solid warm toned background representing the constant stream of thoughts. The figures translate to the self who is trying to escape the reality created by the void. The colour-pop shown in the figures in the ‘Representation of a Dream’ series expresses the bizarre and irrelevant themes of a dream. Interrelated and interdependent conscience is represented through the dynamic gestures and postures of the figures. ‘Growth’ is dedicated to the empowerment achieved through self-motivation. The figures are seen to be moving upward having accepted the flaws in their surroundings. Further, these figures are explained as the simplified narrative of the ever-changing trail of human emotions.