In the field of art intentions do not mean anything. Its like crime, once commited, the delete button stops working. There's no going back. This calls for a journey. Both outward and inward. And what remains are the moments,that these alphabets try to decipher.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
New paintings on newspaper prints
Did four paintings since last week. Discovered newspapers to be good base for painting. Tried working with pen & ink and watercolour. These papers are really nice. They absorb the paints easily and gives dull inward feeling once dried. I think the black lines with whites thrown in between have made the paintings more fairytale like.
Newspapers give a feel of immediacy, a certain 'now'ness as also a sense of decaying. A slow feel of getting worn out. While I painted I realised the straight and curved black lines, the chiaroscuro's and the streaks of colours here and there on the shadowy backdrop of greying 18 pt/12pt streams of letters can create a kind of distant magic that is real as well as unreal at the same time.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
I painted this about five years ago. When I started off with this one I focussed more on color fields, predominantly green with different tones, and tried to explore their interplay. During the process a few birds with stretched out wings started emerging within the painting. I think the movements expressed here 
acted as secrets to their unfolding flights. Whatever it was, I kept it like that and named the painting " Wings in birth"
acted as secrets to their unfolding flights. Whatever it was, I kept it like that and named the painting " Wings in birth"
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