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In visual terms the work is anchored primarily in the
Indian sources of my inspirations – Himalayan art
iconography, stupa and shrine architecture. Since it is made in the city, it is
interpreted with a contemporary sensibility,
interspersed with urban street kitsch etc.
There is receptivity to old and new, figural and
functional, East and West. I am inspired by the
techniques used in contemporary music…I see myself
sampling and remixing old texts, icons and imagery into
new visual works that are accessible without being
populist, and symbolic without being derivative.
In a more abstract and intuitive way the work responds
to the Himalayan landscape, by a certainsense of self
experienced when walking through the mountains and
encountering something ancient, mystical, magical,
timeworn but timeless, which makes you breathe deeply
and wonder, nourishing the spirit. |
