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Shabbir Khambatti ART Habens draw energy from young minds . It gives me new ideas as part of my process of being an artist . I continue to teach children , while at the same time I am a student of their new ideas . feelings and responses to emerge . That for me brings a feeling of gratification of having made something that seems just right .
My experience with art has convinced me that creative expressions generate rays , energies , vibrations , forces and spirits that influence people who contemplate them . It has been what I call “ art medicine ”, as art always has a healing impact on an individual or a group . Aesthetic experience has a powerful effect on us , but we tend to go through life without being fully aware of its place within our lives . We don ’ t contemplate even though we might experience these beneficial qualities on a daily basis . My realization is that everything I do with art and creative expression flows from a common source of inspiration and renewal , even though I may not always be aware of it . Each of my paintings is intended to generate wellsprings of possibilities for reflections . These possibilities could be associative so that the viewer experiences unique relationships through the process of contemplation . All I desire is that he / she looks with sustained attention and let
According to me , Tribal art and Contemporary , senitiveness coexist in both within the medium used to create them . For Instance , I try to access my personal creative expressions through Tribal Warli art . Its soul is imagined as locked inside a self that does not realise its potential for expression . Expression emerges from the body , movement and the rhythmic engagement of the tribal people through their dances and routine activities of daily living . This rhythmic immersion in the expression is the primary source in the renewal of the Tribal Warli art form . The symbiosis of traditional and contemporary art is incorporated with different cultures that relfect the universal cycle of life , death and rebirth .
A woman has always played an important role in my lfe . My mother and my wife
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