An image is a vehicle of silent discourse. Images created by visual artists and designers reflect the times in which they live. ‘The Speaking Image’ is my attempt towards this goal. This journey is not just a dialogue with the self, but also with the images. Images have a lot to tell us. This project is an attempt to understand and create images that communicate visually.
The images are my response to the urban scene around me. Everything, from the clutter of the vehicles, to the chatter in the local trains, the immigrants much blended as the city-dwellers, & the cluster of the buildings; these are an impression of my urbanscape. There is unexpectedness & timelessness with the city of Mumbai. It is not an outer view, but the inner picture of the so-called ‘urban’ life. The city dwellers are present everywhere. There are innumerable life experiences & these make the city real. Under the constructions of concrete walls, are the eyes that dream and the hearts that dance. Happiness and sorrow, liveliness and tiredness, poverty and plenty; urban life is full of contradictions. My works reflect some of these contradictions.
These little patches of urbanscapes are my surroundings, the city I have loved passionately. The project led to re-visiting some of the past memories; it has also been a journey of evolution. A little emphasis on what the outcome of the project was; the display of the images was an exhibit with a set of works that suggested urbanscapes.
