Transcendence (2021-23)
To work with the brush and other related tools, equipped with colour to create intricate hues, thus forming a harmonious whole, is absolutely blissful and feels as good as a dream. There is a thin line between spontaneity and dexterity, and that is what I experience-- the feeling of total control over the movement on the canvas. A sense of freedom envelops me from within as I ask the question-- is this what true freedom is all about? The enjoyment is immense and it fills my whole being like I have just come out of meditation.
While I paint, I feel a clarity in my mind and soul, a togetherness that I experience, a sense of presence and at the same time of absence as I live in the moment between what is truth and what is hope. I transcend into limitless forms within color, an experience which can only be felt when one has that sense of freedom. Color has its boundaries as much as freedom has its definition. I am bound by the form, the space it occupies, the intensity and true nature of color and the composition I intend at that point of time. All this creates an experience which I live through my painting and my expression of it. That is what I call being free from everything around me. It’s truly a beautiful feeling of nothingness yet I have said a whole lot on my canvas.
I hope I am able to light a color in each person’s life as, by that alone, the light of color will burn stronger within me and the nearer I would come to freedom. This is as close to the inner me as I have ever got in my long artistic journey.