ROOTED.
Theme : "What keeps you rooted in difficult times?"
An online exhibition opening on 2nd October 2021.
An art collaboration between Art for change foundation, India
and
Greenly Art Space, California.
Concept Note:
I am an artist and art is my life. So my art has kept me rooted through these difficult times.
The colors evoke emotions, the forms explore the unknown. Unfathomable terrains are revealed as I work with the images to come to an end result, which satisfies my being. I am so engrossed in composing, that time just flies.
Art is also something that will keep me rooted in the coming future, no matter what.
Artist's statement:
I came into the art field because of my late Belgian artist partner, Eric G. C. Weets. He passed away in 2018.
He was an asthmatic patient even before we met. It gradually developed into COPD and for the last 10 years of his life, Eric was put on 24 hours supplemental oxygen therapy at home. I was looking after him.
During these difficult times, it was mostly art, Eric's and mine, the talks we would have about art, philosophy, artists and their biographies etc, kept us sane. I wouldn't have been able to live normal, dealing with pain and suffering, day in and day out for more than 10 years of my life. Art gave me strenght and a way to escape from the painful reality of my life, go into my world and get engrossed in it for hours.
Thereafter, I suffered a mental breakdown due to excessive stress disorder and had to be hospitalised for few day and couple of years later I again suffered the same situation. Besides medicines, art works as therapy for me.
Covid related lockdown didn't affect me much, because I was already home bound for years before Covid.
An online exhibition opening on 2nd October 2021.
An art collaboration between Art for change foundation, India
and
Greenly Art Space, California.
Concept Note:
I am an artist and art is my life. So my art has kept me rooted through these difficult times.
The colors evoke emotions, the forms explore the unknown. Unfathomable terrains are revealed as I work with the images to come to an end result, which satisfies my being. I am so engrossed in composing, that time just flies.
Art is also something that will keep me rooted in the coming future, no matter what.
Artist's statement:
I came into the art field because of my late Belgian artist partner, Eric G. C. Weets. He passed away in 2018.
He was an asthmatic patient even before we met. It gradually developed into COPD and for the last 10 years of his life, Eric was put on 24 hours supplemental oxygen therapy at home. I was looking after him.
During these difficult times, it was mostly art, Eric's and mine, the talks we would have about art, philosophy, artists and their biographies etc, kept us sane. I wouldn't have been able to live normal, dealing with pain and suffering, day in and day out for more than 10 years of my life. Art gave me strenght and a way to escape from the painful reality of my life, go into my world and get engrossed in it for hours.
Thereafter, I suffered a mental breakdown due to excessive stress disorder and had to be hospitalised for few day and couple of years later I again suffered the same situation. Besides medicines, art works as therapy for me.
Covid related lockdown didn't affect me much, because I was already home bound for years before Covid.