Love in the time of Polarization
Performance Art Digital Photography
Love in the Time of Polarization -II
...the story is still about the symbolic motherland separated ideologically but with common challenges.
Trenton Art Fair Shooting and my Otherness
...I was their primary contact, and my face was brown. The deep divide among the people of NJ and other parts of the country, makes artists suffer and defeats the purpose of art itself. My hope is that if there is a single purpose to this financially decrepit pursuit, that is art, it will be that of inclusion.
Natraaj, Tallur and the Cosmic Soup
The organized expression of spirituality is religion, which always depends on cultural and historical context. Unfortunately, religion often ossifies and the teachings are expressed as dogma; experience is replaced by faith. You have to believe; you don’t have to experience. These religions, all over the world, also align themselves with politics and very often with right-wing politics."
The Artist, the Marketer and the People @ SF Moma
Where does the artist play a part in all of this? Historically, he or she does not. His work evolves until it reaches the place where it permeates the psyche of the art lover/ collector, leading to his popularity and spiking price of artworks! Hence we view with bewilderment  Picasso’s early works of forlorn realistic faces, Gerard Richter's early portraits as if in motion with blurry borders, perhaps suggesting the temporality of a situation, and Warhol’s early portraits such as the one of Elvis capturing the movements of a rock star and sold for chump change of $30M and wonder what carved the journey of these artists?! Until such time that the artist himself smartens up to the machinations of marketing and blasts his audience with mass-produced dots, I’m not naming names here!
Saturday Night Saturation
My first introduction to Reena Kallat’s work at Stux Gallery in Chelsea, her portraits of a typical Indian face build with hundreds of rubber stamps in various scripts that came…
