Merlin Harish

"At first sight,the strong colours and geometric shapes of these digital images appear to be modern day Yantras,which exert a powerful retinal pull.Combining western sci fi influences both in form and their ironic,labyrinthine titles,they are redolent of the mysterious narratives of Borges.Operating on so many formal and imaginative levels,their use of repetition,diffraction and endless movement create eruptions of intense colour,which are nevertheless both wistful and somehow haunting.These works leave an after effect both in the eye and the mind."Brian Badonde in the agit-prop art forum"Red Penguin."

"Architectural,sculptural and sometimes abstract expressionistic;these works do not necessarily need a thicket of impenetrable critique to appreciate them,even though they can fully absorb such an envelopment.Employing such diverse methodologies as,reverse photo-realism,cinematic abstract expressionism,and irreal sculpting;the works seek to anarchistically and synaesthetically reorder....colour,mental formations,light,species identity,sound,ideation and indeed ideology,form,interiority and exteriority,material and space,to undermine the prevailing totalitarian indoctrination of perception.This profound political project is present...