Collection: NARAYANAN V

My works reveal innate self-experiences that I admire and observe in my day-to-day life. Occasionally, it may take a month or a second for me to convert my idea into Art. It is a bliss that I go through when the metamorphoses happen in my mind. I treat all surface as ‘duration’, as the marker of a ‘Lifespan’. Thus, every matchstick carries with it the surface tension of the passage of time which can become an audited calendar of life lived. 

In ‘Losing and Gaining Identity’ series, my works appear like painting from a distance, but most have been composed by attaching to the surface strips or swatches of paper or pieces of wood. I have also tried using reversible images (King and Queen) from playing card to represent the idea. My works relate more closely to the linear collage. The idea of absence and presence of fixity in identity to a more abstract level by using sheets of cut paper and painted areas to create contrasting patterns. Through these patterns, I express the idea of complimentary identities. 

Even the housefly which sat on my finger, becomes my ‘Fellow Traveler’ in my work. It reflects on the uniqueness of each moment and journey in my life.