essence
Each work holds a single feeling, interpreted rather than documented and abstracted until representation gives way to affect. The feeling does not stay, because the Self does not stay either. Each series is one passing state, not a verdict. The distortion is the method: digital tools bent against the image’s claim to evidence reality, until what remains is not what the eye saw but what refused to stay hidden. Light and shadow are not composition here. They carry what the grammar of language, which names me and sorts me, cannot hold.
Behind the camera is not a fixed definition but a Self in a constant state of flux: fragmented, fluid, and never finished. What survives in these works is what that Self carried into the frame and left there, distorted past recognition, because recognition was never the point. This is essence, as aham understands it: not the framed subject, but the idea of a Self that had no other way to surface.
Something buried surfaces through the accumulation of small unconscious decisions: a shift, a blur, a colour pushed past likeness, until the image says more than it was asked to say. The gap between what can be expressed and what insists on being felt does not close. It opens, and it opens onto you, asking - who do you see?
waiting
2022
digital
photographic
images
We are all waiting for the big things in life, be it the dream career, the ideal partner, or just a break, while we go about our lives in shared spaces of the everyday. Between the starting point and the destination lies the truth of who we are. We exist in a perpetual state of becoming, suspended between what we are at present and what we romanticise about being. It is in the sterile light of airport terminals and the rhythmic pulse of traffic signals where this abstract yearning takes physical form, where physical pauses become portraits of the subconscious.
writing on the wall
2022
digital
photographic
images
i had known the Berlin Wall only through books, images and illustrations. Standing before it, i met a fragment of time, frozen and preserved. The works painted on it hold a sentiment, a history, a moment, and that moment seems to be repeating. This time the wall is virtual and global.
At Belshazzar’s feast, a hand wrote on a wall and no one saw who sent it. The wise men could not read it. The words meant numbered, weighed, divided: a verdict with no judge in sight. We say the writing is on the wall when the sign is plain and only denial keeps us from reading it.
Here the writing may seem distorted and fragmented. But the warning is clear, and the language that would explain it has failed. What remains is the feeling of having been told, by no one you can name, and the reading is left to you.
wheels of time
2022
digital
photographic
image
Thirty years ago, the wheel was set in motion by a fundamental shift. While the dismantling of the state-controlled economy in favour of global free market was taking place, another structure was being dismantled in favour of a fairy tale. The shift in the economic structure created a superstructure of the 'Global Indian’, an identity built on mimicry and the promise of a borderless future. However, as the gears of time turned, the friction of economic inequality and the erosion of local anchors produced a psychological whiplash. Today, the superstructure has mutated into hyper-nationalism: a desperate attempt to reclaim a 'pure' postcolonial identity as a shield against the perceived coldness of the global market. We are witnessing the posthuman irony - where the very technology and markets that were supposed to unite us have provided the tools for a more rigid, tribal, and inward-looking definition of who we are.
while you were asleep
2022
digital
photographic
images
i photographed people sleeping in public spaces, without their knowing. Would this be considered as a violation of privacy, or do they waive their right to privacy when they are in public spaces? Some of the ethical questions lie in this exact grey area: what is owed to a person who is visible to all and aware of none of it?
portraits
2022
digital
photographic
images
We are all waiting for the big things in life, be it the dream career, the ideal partner, or just a break, while we go about our lives in shared spaces of the everyday. Between the starting point and the destination lies the truth of who we are. We exist in a perpetual state of becoming, suspended between what we are at present and what we romanticise about being. It is in the sterile light of airport terminals and the rhythmic pulse of traffic signals where this abstract yearning takes physical form, where physical pauses become portraits of the subconscious.
an introspective
2023
digital
photographic
images
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