Andhra Pradesh (Adoni) a small town with an abundance of minerals and lime stone deposits, an isolated place with arid land and scanty rain fall, a place I was born.  I completed my graduation in Commerce from Pune University, a lush city which receives heavy and incessant rainfall during the monsoon season.

Art has been an integral and essential part of my life since my child hood.  This desire to gain more knowledge has led me to study art under the guidance of Mr Rameshwar Broota.

I left a recognizable image long back and came into the essence of real, i.e abstract expressionism.  The abstract does not come at the beginning.  It comes later when you really get into the core of the feeling and you can express that feeling.  For this, I chose the paper as my primary medium.  It is my aim to reveal paper without any interference.  I work on Somerset paper by using a blunt knife to impress the paper to form images.  I do not paint or write on it rather create images through the accumulation of thousands of strokes that I impress with my knife.

My technique is the result of the observation of rain as in ‘RAIN DROPS’.

The silence

This work articulates overtones of white to create compositions that are of repeated forms.  Through the delicate execution of empressing the white archival board, the subtle empress on board with graphite and blunt knife become visible at close range and can disappear entirely when photographed.

This requires patience and slow engagement of the audience.  Simultaneously the work questions the placement and meaning of a blank surface and what it means to steadily engage with it, in a fast-paced digital world.  Therefore the complexity of the work lies in its simplicity, as it does not aim to capture reality or represent the real world but instead attempt to evoke contemplation and emotion of the onlooker.