ARTIST STATEMENT
My works mainly speak about glimpses of a life lived, expressed as a conversation within myself. During my formative years, my hometown (Kumbakonam, the southern part of India) played an important role. It is a city rich in culture, music, theater, art, and ancient architecture.
Once I met with an accident, the understanding of life and work process turned inwards and broader during the convalescent, and I started perceiving things in a complex light. The questions of death and existence began to loom bigger with the background of the cultural and religious apparatus given by my hometown.
My artwork depicts the process of my artistic struggles to synthesize, understand my existence within a given time and space. Occasionally a pleasurable moment spent, too. The subjects may be a contemporary issue or ancient art and architecture. Still, the aim is not to recreate, emphasize religious aspects, or to deconstruct it, but to bring out the spirit of quest in terms of visual language.
Though I mainly work in oil on canvas, pastels on board, drawings, watercolor, and photography, despite working with movie making and theater, the subject and energy level of the given moment decides the size and medium of the work.
My purpose in art-making is to study, understand, and share the essence of humankind’s existence. This process balances me to life’s rhythm, expands my horizons, and even works as a therapy. I hope this would be the same for the viewer too. In that sense, my life is inseparable from art.