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I transmit the overwhelming feeling of the day-to-day reality. The contradiction and contrast between the different facts of human life. Images and colors are often derived from at the most real surface of real world and it may turn to extend, where the idea of work and my imagination blend together. So the images are mostly personified and deliberately articulated in a sophisticated realm. Finally altogether, slightly the two dimensional space gives an ambience of surreal or magical illusion. Ultimately, it becomes an ambiguity or an allegory on the very specific physical world. I try to construct space within the limitation of space, with the archetypal images and its repetition. Basically I believe everything is abstract and forms are just a matter of representation of an object or a thought.

There are two alternatives for comprehending the world -either we believe that everything is real and true, or we consider everything to be an illusion.  The Science cannot prove the intricacies of Human Mind, as it is not constant. Then, what is the constant truth? My visual perception begins from this point, as a search for the constant truth in the reality, which surrounds me. Reality doesn’t merely mean the socio-political arena, it relates to the most inner truth of everything. Conscious mind enters the real world and it searches for the logic in reality. Here all doubts on reality emerge by itself, from the realms of the conscious mind. The question of existence and the reason of Birth, Growth and Death are the phenomenon to be unveiled. At the same time, there is an inherent obligation to live. Concurrent to this thought, the unconscious mind manifests an imaginary world of dreams. Ultimately, my works are being just like a pendulum in between the quest for total existence and the anxieties over the present realities.

I talk about the nature of reality and urban and rural juxtapositions as a search for the constant truth in the reality, which surrounds me. Reality doesn’t merely mean the socio-political arena; it relates to the most inner truth of everything. Conscious mind enters the real world and it searches for the logic in reality. Here, all doubts on reality emerge by itself, from the realms of the conscious mind. The question of existence and the reason of birth, growth and death are the phenomenon to be unveiled. At the same time, there is an inherent obligation to live. Concurrent to this thought, the unconscious mind manifests an imaginary world of dreams. Ultimately, my works are being just like a pendulum: in between the quest for total existence and the anxieties over the present realities. The idea of life, death and the confusion over the universe, are concurrently repeated in my works. Sometimes the nature of the idea is a kind of contradiction on the present realities.

 About recent works: How we take care of the depleting ecological system is one of the subject matters of my recent works. When a giant Multinational Company erects its building in the rural suburbs, the atmosphere of that locality changes and so does the cultural space, that existed there before. I see the beauty of Hyderabad (where I live and work), illuminated by thousand lights. But during the daytime, what I can see, are the narrow roads of rural India in the back yard of the Hi-Tec city. This is one of the bizarre contradictions of urbanization.