Monday, 5 March 2012

The landscapes in a way are cultural images representing social surroundings of a place. They can be depicted in many ways- in a form of painting, drawing and in a more natural manner- in fields- intervention of human in natural spaces. The issue I have chosen is already well discussed and now days taken as a very serious issue- Global warming, to which I call ‘human deeds’. Here I am trying to look at either sides of the coin, where the touched landscapes plays various roles sometimes in favor and majorly in against of humankind. Here in my works I try to show “the preparations”, which we human make for our future. Sometimes life and sometimes death is present in various drawings by charcoal, in mix-media works and paintings. Through the drawings in perspective with repetitive marks I try to show a purpose in a way of meditation. The affection towards open spaces becomes a key point in the works. The absence of human in itself becomes the presence of human. I treat the natural and human-made elements sometimes in landscapic way and sometime in a manner to study colors and forms. Stylistically, I consider my landscapes of a minimalistic type where I reduce the subjective elements to minimum details, just to suggest their presence. This is how I tell one of the innumerable stories of humankind (human deeds) through my works/landscapes. Everything is revolving into me as a center where I am doing and aesthetically experiencing the process and the medium to have the stream of works to lead my destiny. The reason behind the works is the experience that I had after seeing many trees, chopped by human in a manner to make nests for them and for various other uses. E.g. The most memorable become a 50 year old eucalyptus tree which was chopped down by our landlords at my home town to make new construction. I witnessed the tree in a photograph and in a poem written by my father in the memory of the tree.