Burnt Gold...

Adding my drop of Gold to your elixir... or taking some of yours to add to mine...

coffee,fevicol,charcoal and gold paint on paper.

 PS: inspired by one of my centre festival titled 'Burnt Gold'.

MadhuBani!

Having keen interest in making intricate designs and love for nature, i stumbled upon an informal workshop on Madhubani and Warli art, sometime last month. Sharing some of my first designs:

‘Madhu’ means honey and ‘bans’ is forest. Madhubani is hilly forest terrain in Bihar state in Eastern India . Madhubani, or Mithila, painting is a folk painting of northern India.The area of Mithila lies near the border of India and Nepal and carries a rich pastel of cultural legacy in art and literature. Its heritage goes back at least 2,500 years and its celebrated figures include the Buddha and Mahavira. It is also the birthplace of Sita, the central character in Ramayana. Hence, her life stories are frequently depicted in the local art.

Madhubani art is inspired by the urge of Invocation of holy spirits, the divine power the God and their creation of blissful nature, flora and fauna.The paintings are traditionally based on mythological, folk themes and pastoral symbols. The central themes of most paintings are love, valor, devotion and fertility, though the approach may vary. So it is common to find scenes of courtship and marriages and symbols of fertility and prosperity like fish, parrot, elephant, turtle, sun, moon, bamboo tree, lotus, etc. in prominence. The paintings are normally depicted on mud walls during family events, ceremonies, marriages and also daily life. Bright colours depicting mythological scriptures, epics, legends make Madhubani a very attractive art form. 

source:

http://www.ethnicartofindia.com/Madhubani_Gall1.htm 

http://colorofindia.com/madhubani-art.htm 

Ink pen on paper. 2011. Collection: Ipsa Bajaj.

 PS: Thanks to a very dear friend for the constant encouragement in 'MadhuBani' art! ;)

Yellow!

Yellow [5.10.11] water based pencil colours on paper

 Yellow by Coldplay

Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah they were all yellow,

I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called yellow

So then I took my turn
Oh all the things I've done
And it was all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
D'you know you know I love you so
You know I love you so

I swam across
I jumped across for you
Oh all the things you do
Cause you were all yellow

I drew a line
I drew a line for you
Oh what a thing to do
And it was all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
D'you know for you i bleed myself dry
For you i bleed myself dry

Its true
look how they shine for you
look how they shine for you
look how they shine for you
look how they shine for you
look how they shine for you
look how they shine
look at the stars
look how they shine for you
and all the things that you do...

Ma-er Agomon!

dhaak

Earthly Pleasures!

In anticipation of the much awaited durga puja, and inspired by the pre puja idols made by the local sculptors, an experience i  wish to integrate with my 'lights'... =)

Durga

a raw, unpainted, beautiful durga idol.
installation used in photography: cascade of LED lights.

Installation used:light project through holes in plywood. 

effect of halogen lamp.

sketch used: Fearless (smudged kajal series)

 

 Location: Shiv Mandir, C.R. Park, New Delhi
Date of visit: September 26,2011
Travel courtesy: Anwesha Bose
 Durga photo and title courtesy: Anwesha Bose

इंतज़ार...

One of my abstract works which has been subjected to much speculation to the few who have seen it. i wonder why...
Open to your interpretations.

Well, the wait continues... =)

Intzaar [2010] (ink,pencils and charcoal on paper)

the beginning of intzaar

[apologies for the low quality photographs]

it's been on my mind so felt like sharing it: DJ Cheb i Sabbah song- kese kese

Blind Sculptor aka Waking Dream III

Into figurative these days and loving it...
Human body is one of the most amazing creations...so much to explore...
some of my first figures... ~desiring perfection.

written on 1.3.11

 
PS:Expressing gratitude to 'Aks'... who has currently been an 'inspiration' to love and embrace myself which at some point of time in my life seemed unattainable. My only hope of unconditional love in this delusional world.
[a song dedicated to aks- saathi-midival punditz and ustad sultan khan ]

Áftab Ámad Dalil-i Áftáb

Love, The Hierophant

'Tis heart-ache lays the lover's passion bare:

No sickness with heart-sickness may compare.

Love is a malady apart, the sign

And astrolabe of mysteries Divine.

Whether of heavenly mould or earthly cast,

Love still doth lead us Yonder at the last.

Reason, explaining Love, can naught but flounder

Like ass in mire:Love is Love's own expounder.

Does not the sun himself the sun declare?*

Behold him! All the proof thou seek'st is there.

~Rumi

* The line is a literal translation of the persian analogy 'Áftab Ámad Dalil-i Áftáb' meaning the appearing of the Sun is proof of the Sun and thus metaphorically implying that love indeed needs no explanation. The existence of love, is proof of Love. heh! it's a sort of cyclical reasoning! A-scientific but then as i mentioned before, it has a feel factor attached to it! Hence, according to me, it's completely futile and a waste of time to define love objectively, as humorous it is, to read physicists debate on the existence of the sun!

Silver Dollar.                                        9.7.11