These are paintings in which I tried to fuse the two styles I love to paint with geometric abstraction and figurative expressionism. I am expressing my emotions with geometric shapes and bold colors then superimposing and layering in figurative expressionism into the same painting to emphasize my feelings and moods.
Kali Painting
Concept, background of Kali Painting. The squares opening, one square revolving around one point in motion represents the awakening of subconsciousness around a focus. One connects with the inner self, awakens to find the power, the Shakti within oneself and thus connects with ‘Adi Shakti’, the Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent Shakti (Primordial Inconceivable Energy). The darkness or blackness is the state of mind, the despondence, fear, bleeding pain and feeling of loss especially this year which is lightened by the awakening of the inner self to find Power Within.
Shadow Pandemic
The dark black square and red rectangle express my state of mind and the pain with everything happening around us in the pandemic. The figurative depiction of the hand disrobing the woman represents the shaming and violence that happenings in Shadow Pandemic. The two paintings are some what related. The darkness and blood depict the pain and hopelessness of the current situations in this pandemic. But in the kali painting overcomes the fear and pain by finding the Power Within us.
Isolation
In the Isolation paintings the bold yellow color depicts the sunlight flooding in through the window representing hope and the blue is the darkness and isolation of being locked inside almost like a caged bird. The blue expresses again the despondence and hopelessness created by the pandemic. The yellow is the hope to overcome depression.