The "Vibrating Ink" series is inspired by the profound moral complexities of existence: birth, death, and rebirth. My work is influenced by Ancient Eastern literature and astrology, examines how birth details shape our lives, and spotlights issues of inheritance, caste, and class disparities. 

The series confronts cultural and physical divisions dictated by birth by exploring predestined paths, blurred identities, and the universal search for belonging.

Featuring asemic drawings and symbols, it employs ink, paint, clay, and pigments to depict the cycles of creation and destruction.

Vibrating Ink

The Ancient Hymns Series is based on a belief that human life is in continuity with the cosmos. 
I do spiritual chanting as I work with an image’s formal elements. A sense of spirit directs my application of pigment to the canvas.

This approach has been shaped by a rootedness in Hinduism’s music, mythology, and symbolism--as well as with the West’s mostly-secular conversation with painterly abstraction.

Color, shape, and line strum through my work, animated by a surrender to the possibilities of composition. My art process brings life lessons to me and evokes meditative states. All of this is healing.

I want my art to remove the troubling impressions held within my viewers’ psyches. Ultimately finding happiness.

Ancient Hymns

Ice and Fire series is inspired by the uncompromising perspective our cosmos exhibits between nature and femininity, fire and ice, deconstruction and preservation. As I paint, I continue my quest to visually capture the spirit of pure feminism as it naturally exists within our landscape. 

Women represent so much more than the female version of our physical being. Women have a mind, body, and spirit of all shapes, sizes, and colors that are so naturally wild and free. My body is my first home and, as an immigrant, my creative process helps me explore and heal my relationship with myself and amplifies my courage as a complete woman. I steal these moments and confidently make my own art dedicated to magnifying the elegance of womanhood.

Gaurii S Kumaar