Work Statement

Every concept or an idea has multiple dimensions and complexities of its own. No concept or an idea is a single unit or individual in nature. This multidimensionality may not be comprehended fully with its secondary conceptual associations and so on. But compromised interpretation of these complex ideas can be replaced by reflecting their complexities through art.

My prints also have similar figurative and non figurative fragments entwined with one another to make a complex pattern or a composition, carried through printmaking technique with its tactile and visual qualities of the given woodblock medium.

Things will never be the same again?

Mp4 Video, 2020

Duration: 3.28 minutes.

Today stress busters and toys are common even for grownups. To understand its dimensions, possibilities and its overall character creates a personal narrative which acts as effective exercise. If these toys have no clear visual associations, it opens up new possibilities.

In the given situation today, we hear “Things will never be the same again?” (‘?’ as shown in the news media i.e. a statement followed by a question mark to keep things ambiguous). We may start questioning what do we mean by “same”, was it ever the same as before? Because things were and are always changing, moving us constantly from uncertainty to definite conclusions in a loop. In a time when we believe we are scientifically equipped to understand and control most of this uncertainty, the “Unknown” still haunts, frustrates and intimidates us.

Instead of despair we can see new opportunities opening up to comprehend more abstract or absurd ideas and concepts by creating personal narratives of the situation along with the many facets of the world around us which is constantly changing its appearances and dimensions with illusionary skins.