About

Narrative in Reality

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Art has always been a part of me. What started off as a hobby soon became a way of life and a place of peaceful retreat. I have sketched for as long as I can remember, starting from doodling on school tables during classes, to painting my favorite characters from stories, and finally making a profession of it through Architecture.

Architecture though rigid and technical, had its alluring design charm with small areas for creativity. This charm soon began to feel like an anchor holding me down with its need for precision and design constraints, that it made it impossible for me to be creative with no setback.

The concept of integrating art into architecture or vice versa created a path for a different and more progressive form of design and this is what prompted me to pursue my studies further in Sculpture. I wished to find the in-between neutral space of these two design forms. 

This led me to the concept of starting the process with an idea, an idea that I wanted the world to see in my work, and then building that idea into a work of art, hoping that it would give way to a living and breathing form of art, an art that never really dies after its first viewing, but the idea that lives on as a discussion even after its display ends. 

Most of my works are installations or transitory sculptures made with an intention to capture and retain the audience's attention and have them view the work not just as a piece of art but as an ongoing conversation. Having studied architecture, I refuse to believe that a sculpture is an object by itself and has no relation to its surroundings. Any object once moved from its current space into another, becomes something else entirely. I create a relationship between the space and the sculpture, and have the viewer move through it as if through a journey. This journey through art has taught me to concentrate on details, more so on the details of our everyday life. We tend to make work about big and prominent happenings of our life, but what about the small bits that make up our everyday, the parts without which we wouldn't be whole today. I call these the 'negligables', be it in our personal lives, in our society or in the world. I strive to start a conversation with my work and urge the viewers to continue the discussion when they view it. I investigate the 'obvious' and envision the 'change'.  My goal is to create a small change in this vast world, hoping that we wouldn't walk by as mundane machines in this overly technical world, but stop for a minute and question our role in this life. The notion of creating the feeling of 'something is wrong... and Why?' is the intention with my work.