Artist's Statement:

The mind is a subtle, multi-dimensional environment of images, symbols, words, feelings and emotions. It is a complex self-organizing and patterning system. An active mechanism that morphs and manifests in limitless forms, fusing, synthesizing and juxtaposing images, words emotions, etcetera in seemingly random and senseless ways, wherein everything is inter-related and interconnected, stringed with a thread visible only to wide and open minds.

My paintings are frozen fractions of the mind's activity - recreated intuitively on flat canvasses of acrylics. Surreal pictures where reality and fantasy waltz in the depths of dreams, daydreams and the subconscious. Each painting is open-ended. There is no fixed interpretation or definite meaning. All the elements can be taken literally or symbolically acoording to the whims and personal experiences of the viewer.

An installation art for

2008 Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival.

Statement:

The Shield is symbolic of the ozone layer.The ozone is supposed to protect us and the world from excessive heat and harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun. But, due to our ignorance, neglect and irresponsibility, we have caused irreparable damage and holes to it . And now, we are experiencing the worldwide effect of global warming which resulted to climate change which puts us in a nightmarish brink of destruction.

Glaciers and Alps are rapidly melting threatening low-lying lands and islands into submerging underwater. Rivers, inland seas, lakes and other smaller bodies of water are drying up. More and more forest, bush and grass fires occur due to excessive heat from the sun. Heat waves  are becoming more and more intensified killing humans, plants and animals.

The Shield is a grim reminder of our precarious situation. When we enter inside it to take shelter from the scorching heat of the sun, we realize that we no longer get full protection because of the many holes around its wall. Just like the ozone cannot protect us fully any longer because of the holes we have created to it - maybe unconsciously.

My installation is interactive. The people who will be viewing and entering into it are encouraged to put some weaving to the holes (like a dreamcatcher) symbolically trying to mend the holes of the damaged and continually thinning ozone layer. Thus, my artwork will be changing during the duration of the exhibition.

-rishab

An installation art for 2008 Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival.

Statement:

The Shield is symbolic of the ozone layer.The ozone is supposed to protect us and the world from excessive heat and harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun. But, due to our ignorance, neglect and irresponsibility, we have caused irreparable damage and holes to it . And now, we are experiencing the worldwide effect of global warming which resulted to climate change which puts us in a nightmarish brink of destruction.

Glaciers and Alps are rapidly melting threatening low-lying lands and islands into submerging underwater. Rivers, inland seas, lakes and other smaller bodies of water are drying up. More and more forest, bush and grass fires occur due to excessive heat from the sun. Heat waves  are becoming more and more intensified killing humans, plants and animals.

The Shield is a grim reminder of our precarious situation. When we enter inside it to take shelter from the scorching hat of the sun, we realize that we no longer get full protection because of the many holes around its wall. Just like the ozone cannot protect us fully any loner because of the holes we have created to it - maybe unconsciously.

My installation is interactive. The people who will be viewing and entering into it are encouraged to put some weaving to the holes (like a dreamcatcher) symbolically trying to mend the holes of the damaged and continually thinning ozone layer. Thus, my artwork will be changing during the duration of the exhibition.