suhana: in degrees

These are portraits of suhana,a young girl i knew, in varying degrees of abstraction. theyre not in the same colour scheme since they've been done at different instances of time and only came together as an exploration in hindsight, although that would've been ideal if the idea is to observe how what we feel an object changes with how much we see of it.
it is only in the confines of a black box, knowing its limits can you embark on a limitless journey, that might have an end.
the smaller your sample, the more layers you can peel.
i wonder where she is, if shes happy where she is.

sikkim: drawings on the train

pseudo intimate moment

 

              "mother!"

            from the window

           radha 

drawings, here and there

I draw, when not on brief, to try to forget how to see, which we otherwise live doing. mostly without a concept, a word for it, a meaning. i could never quite do work and doccument it at the same time, either becasue i am never happy with what i see, because its done without a purpose or set brief, i do not know with what meaning or context to present it, or becasue i am generally too soporific to take that burden upon myself; i did although make a conscious effort to update the internet of my works on coroflot in the last two or three years. 

www.coroflot.com/skyissea

rabbi's cat

artwork i found inspiring. there are a plethora of comics out there which rest strongly on the power of the story,on words,on what they are saying more than how they are saying it; most of the others are dotted with hyper realsim, digital effects, dark settings. they seem designed to numb you to the grandiose of smallness, with their effortless largeness, and push you into a reality that the wolrd is selling to you every second. it is also natural, since the graphic novel is a medium where images that follow the speed of time they were carried out in, are fit together to communicate something, no one image is a stand alone story, and the time constraint does not allow for the artist to work towards making each of those many drawings a work of art in itself. Id rather create an eight page book in four years where page is a story in itself, independent, a book on its own. yet, i long to see a book where the balance of beauty in its depiction and storytelling is euqally perfected. once in every while, i come across one. rabbi's cat came close to that.

evocative, strongly consistent ,bold artwork.