Flat Fruit - Pomegranate Sculpture

The essence of thoughts can not really be captured by tangibles, but using clay as a medium I try to express what has moved me deeply or left an impact on my journey of life. My work responds to ideologies or philosophies that prod me to introspect, mulling deeper, pushing gently to explore the multifaceted layers under the water washed landscape of life and living. My conversations with clay started in 1989 with sculptural terracottas, trying to capture a moment in time, a fluid movement or expression, an intensely felt emotion by using the empty abstract spaces in between realistic figurative forms. I believe that clay has a silent strength, a being…. An ability to hold in its form a wordless expression of an artists thoughts. It is malleable, soft, yielding and at the same time possesses within the inherent strength to withstand the greatest forces of nature. Its very nature fascinates me. Its silent strength is my inspiration. Even while using similar processes or techniques each of my artworks lives through its own passage through fire living out its individual catharsis to evolve emerging completely unique… …its story hence resonates deeply with our own human journey of life.