Amar Space 7 (My space 7) Painting

I am from Assam, India. I am a person seeking knowledge about reality and I do so by creating Images. We humans are organisms with mobility therefore the concept of migration is just as old as our existence. We have moved from one place to another often to fulfill our basic needs, scouting for resources and sometimes simply to seek answers. Whatever be the reason, the supreme mission and vision has always been to better the existing living condition and/or expand our knowledge, find truth and in the course creating our history. However, this ‘migration’ and its movement has brought about more than fair amount of conflict and struggle with it. Conflict has been for both tangible and intangible matter. My grandfather migrated from East Bengal to India during the partition for the very same reasons. I grew up in Assam, a north east state of India. While growing up I witnessed cultural conflicts between different communities for space and identity. During my early 20’s I too migrated from my hometown to Santiniketan in West Bengal to pursue my BFA and MFA. In the course of my six years of learning art I was introduced to different types of mediums and techniques that facilitated towards exploring my own identity and experiencing the aura of my surroundings. We humans are complex social creatures. We are composed of elements that stretch beyond our organic self. We, however primarily tend to rely on visuals that help us build an image which in turn helps us comprehend our environment. Hence, I have been studying both tangible and intangible elements by combining different mediums to create layers. By these layers I insinuate to represent our surrounding that consists of both, our secular space and spiritual space. By creating visual images in an exaggerated and hyperbolic manner, I have set out to seek and explore this incongruity between these spaces and many a times its consequences. I have always had an infatuation towards my locale, and so having lived in Assam and Santiniketan and presently working to create my new pieces in Bangalore. I was and always am greatly stimulated by my environment. I was a midst cultural, material vortex and steady nature. Therefore I create landscapes containing motifs such as the fence, house and boat to materialize the human existence within the process of my image creation. I borrowed these images from my early childhood.