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Before that, my most favorite series, the mask has been created which also depicts multiple personalities in one kind. One can have a pure insight but have unattractive features. I observed that we always have a mask on us, everyone has their own traits but they can’t show same trait all the time. It always changes according to the place, time and people. I called it mask. One side of our personality is always hiding behind good or bad. So I researched on the behavior of humankind which eventually came into my art. Another inspiration for me is a great artist from India is Tyeb Mehta. His lines, composition and the way he used to distort the figures was so fascinating for me. I studied his paintings during my university days and my work was also influenced by his work for long time.
I have worked in printmaking also and in those days, I always surrounded by printmakers. I used to study their detailed drawings and techniques, which I have adapted in my drawing creating many figures, rhythmic lines and compositions. This is how I developed my creative drawing skills. After learning many techniques and studying several kinds of art, I felt like I should have my own style. But I even knew that it cannot be created, it has to come naturally and my gurus supported me and gave me direction to find myself. I started unlearning all the things which I learned over the years, emptied my mind to fill it with new ideas. I experimented a lot and eventually started finding myself and I am still in this process.
Many of your works carry an autobiographical message. Since you transform your experiences into your artwork, we are curious, what is the role of memory in your artistic productions? We are particularly interested if you try to achieve a faithful translation of your previous experiences or if you rather use memory as starting point to create.
I start with lines –some random lines and it tends to take a life of its own. As the dialogue progresses, it directs me towards execution- with many layers of colors and lines. It’s a matter of satisfaction till which you continue to work. Having said that I also would say that Memory plays quite an important role in my works but, intuitively. The observations of human conditions and behavior stays there in my mind as a memory which later converts into intuitive forms and they naturally come in the process of execution. I have used some childhood incidents and major events of my life in my previous works- one of those is relocating from India to UAE.
Here I would like to tell you about one of my series called memories of Liwa. Liwa (Rab al Khail in Arabic) is a massive as well as beautiful desert in UAE and I have been there for an artist residency. The experience of living in an open desert was such that I could not describe in words, so I expressed that phenomenal experience through art. The memory is there and it comes in all my drawings and paintings in very symbolic forms. Then I started thinking about how on one side there is a huge desert and on the other hand side is the sea which is raw and natural and how people turned this raw place into a planned developed city. This unbelievable infrastructural development is like a miracle which caught my eye and the new series has born titled “Life in a metro”. Every painting contains small geometrical shapes in florescent colors which indicate the desert.
What is the role of technique in your practice? In particular are there any constraints or rules that you follow when creating?
There are no rules or limitation that I follow until and unless it is a purely technical work like printmaking. Painting is technical but more often it is intellectual and spiritual. I am always open to experiments with new mediums and supports, but I do follow a kind of discipline in using these, in sizing, in maintaining the freshness of colour, cleanliness, documentation of the work. I would love to tell you one thing- as I studied art since childhood so the fundamentals of arts has taken a permanent place in my mind which comes out unconsciously when I am working and consciously I have to break them. I always have some boundaries logistically, but cannot setup boundaries intellectually.
My technique is evolving with the time. All the techniques of painting which I learned and used to have in my work for a certain period of time are now coming together and submerging with each other and creating a new technique. I feel like the world is round and old trends come back with a touch of contemporariness in any field of art like fashion, writing and art this is how evolutions take places this is very related to my technique and this process will go on like this. When I am painting I start with some random lines, then I apply a thin layer of colour and brush strokes and then again some lines using the tip of brush’s wooden end. Then the process of application of colors and lines goes on till I see some forms on the surface which matches the intuitive forms in mind. Then I try to bring those form up from the background and give importance to them. I get further direction from each of my activity on the canvas and stop working when I feel that painting looks complete. Sometimes I work on finished painting also and am able to change it when I feel something is missing in this. That missing part is indescribable- it is intellectual.
In my drawings the process is a bit different as support and medium changes, technique changes. I work with watercolors, all kind of inks, charcoal, soft pastels, conte, Graphite, Pencils Chalk on Paper. I always start drawings with some quick ink washes on paper as I cannot start dialogue with white empty surface so I have to paint it first and then I use lines to create some forms. Photo ink is a beautiful medium, I find, to create textures as this ink is not permanent and u can lift it with brush and water after applying this. You can find some textures of broken lines and leaf in almost all works I have created with this.
Now a days I am working with different inks on different kind of paper, trying to get positive results according the nature of paper creating some textures. Once I get the results I am looking for those textures to use in my future works.