Icarus and his wings

It was a very hot day in Dubai and I had half a nerve to go straight to Mr.Sun and tell him to take a strong nap. My thoughts kept me breathing and angry and soon i began to think of a story i had heard as a child. A certain guy called Icarus(a greek mythological character) had some thoughts about the Sun too. Only his thoughts were on conquering the Sun itself.He was convinced that he was stronger,greater and more smarter than the decades old Sun. Anyway, Icarus  gets all set to fly to the Sun with wax wings that he makes to help him reach his destination. The story concludes with Icarus's wings melting in super speed and throwing him down perilously.

Icarus reminded me of people who were so full of themselves. They are convinced that there is nothing above them. Not even the superior force that remains a mystery to man till date. ( Some of us refer this Superior force as God himself).Icarus's wings are of different colours that indicate the different cultures and continents of people.

Painting Details:

Date of creation :June 2007

Medium - Paper

Media - Acrylic, oil pastels & pen

Size -17.46 inch (W) x 14.5 inch (H)

Sale Status : Available

Price : On request

The Stoning of St. Stephen

This is an illustration work that I did for a friend.

It is a pictorial description of Saul

(who later when converted to Christianity was named St. Paul) bearing witness to the stoning of St. Stephen, the first martyr for Christ.

Painting Details:

Date of creation : December 2012

Medium - Paper

Media - Acrylic, oil pastels

Size -8.4 inch (W) x 11.5 inch (H)

Sale Status : Not Available

Price : Not Available

Self indulgence of faith.

I did this painting when I was 20 years old. I was the skeptiC human. In india religion plays a big part of every person.This led me to one day do a painting based on the religion I followed (i.e. Christianity).Let me explain this piece of work below.

At the center of the painting there is a chalice ( the chalice represents the wine cup that holds the blood of Christ during Holy Communion) and inside it there is an embryo (the sign of a birth/hope) that is forming itself within the chalice.Every individual is born into a religion but there are never born into faith. Faith is a self-indulgence. Which means you can either choose to belive in a religion or not. No man can force anyone into faith which is purely a self process.There is also another view to this same point and that is- it denotes how a child is segregated without his own choice to which religion he belongs to for the most part of his life.

On the right bottom side, the symbol of Christianity, i.e.  the fish; is added to connect the theme of the Christian religion. 

Moving to the top part of the painting, I have chosen to represent technology with the simplest yet most life changing discovery - Electricity. This is indicated by the poles that connect one another with houses that represent a city drawn right below and between the poles.

The left side of the painting has a bottle with a person sitting in a resignation position.The man figure represents mankind and the human aspect of life.

The bottle represents the many walls we often put our selves in. When I drew this painting at the age of twenty i felt there was a questioning sense of emptiness within the terms of liturgy or traditional faith that is imposed into a child who later grows into a man.But as I grew,especially now after ten years, I have grown to love and understand the liturgy and the Holy books along with the sensible writings of many a man of the past. Our own lives are but reflections of lives lived before us and from our side we add to it some small personal achievements.

Painting Details:

Date of creation :September 2005

Medium - Paper

Media - Acrylic, oil pastels & pen

Size -14.5 inch (W) x 10.5 inch (H)

Sale Status : Available

Price : On request

House - Inside Out

One day I was pondering on inner purity. I tried to think of it in huge words and quotes. But as i progressed in thought I began to break up the question into tiny colour molecules.Go ahead & give purity a colour. Then add more colours to that same purity. And soon we are bombarded with a series of colours.

Well if what I am trying to convey is confusing you, let me show you how I solved the question for myself. 

Picture a house.Its a normal thing to colour the inside of the house once we draw the outline. Now do the exact opposite. Go ahead and colour the outside of the frame of the house. I hope your still with me in this idea. 

So eventually we are now left with molecules of colour all around the frame of the house.Now, we can see the inside of the house is white or shall we say pure? (white is often related to purity by different cultures and tradition). 

Anyway getting to my conclusion - a complete submission to life fills us to the brim with purity as it purges away the doubts and obvious weakness found deep within every soul. ( that is the tiny molecules of colour) 

Painting Details:

Date of creation :August 2012

Medium - Canvas board

Media - Acrylic

Size -9.5 inch (W) x 12.5 inch (H)

Sale Status : Available

Price : On request

Celebration in Chaos

"My neighbor was shot dead yesterday but that's OK because I am alive and happy!"

Everyone in this world either live's for themselves or live within the four walls of their tiny home. The question of 'why bother?' is nothing to an individual these days. An emotion is an unwanted thing that no longer has much space to breathe in the midst of our ipads, cell phones and palm laptops. We create our closed destiny for each day, within which we are fairly content. 

Why bother when it never affects us anyway? That's the slogan in the mouths of infants even these days. 

In this painting I have shown a wonderful outburst of yellow. Yellow is a colour of celebration. A colour that tells others we are happy.

As a concept artist I often like to paint the exact opposite of what my concept stands for, because reality is often like this. 

Painting Details:

Date of creation : August 2005

Medium - Paper

Media - Acrylic, oil pastels & pen

Size -16.5 inch (W) x 12 inch (H)

Sale Status : Available

Price : On request