Prakash Bal Joshi

REFLECTIONS ON TRANSIENT LIFE

Paintings, ink-drawings and sketches by Prakash Bal Joshi, a Mumbai,India,-based artist, reflect a recurring theme"”the transient nature of life and the Nature itself.

Joshi's creations go beyond, what he calls the outer look of various animate and inanimate objects that populate this planet, and try to reveal the subtle nature lying underneath their visual forms. Thus the buildings, streets, trees, bushes, lakes, rivers and myriad other objects he paints assume mystical aura about themselves. His ink or pen-on- paper sketches and drawings portray massive changes in the urban landscape brought on by development that reflect two self-contradictory movements"”rise in material comforts and fall in values. Some of them show in subdued hues human emotions like love and disillusionment while a few others simply convey the complications of human mind through a series of mazes.

Joshi feels a mysterious spiritual connect with rivers"”something that seems to stem from his childhood tryst with swimming in a river which almost ended in his drowning. He evocatively uses river as a visual metaphor in his works to portray the flow of life, and the loss he feels when he thinks of many rivers that ...

graduate from Pune University, India .
artist\author written three books based on experiences in urban life