The Shadows of Memories- The Reflections in between the Horizon of Interior and Exterior Self (2020 August- Ongoing) is a body of work which plays between the memories and material reality. This plane is the horizon where the mind and body meet. This project is the first part of a long form Thesis work for the MFA in Visual Studies program in Minneapolis College of Art and Design done throughout Fall 2020.

This project concentrates on making images that focus on cultural manifestations through various forms of regular geometric shapes and organic shapes residing side by side. I observed the gesture reflecting on the surfaces that manifest complex and abstract forms of self awareness/ consciousness, followed by the unnoticed light patterns that occur to the known familiar and intimate spaces. The shadows light up the questions about the characters and people living there. I’ve responded to these questions with solitude and silence that attracts me in the midst of chaotic exterior reality.

The melancholia of turning all these stories to memories right after the moment of making has drawn me to creating this project.

This Shadow Dance of memories and feelings is crafted with the concept of visioning rhythmic pattern of music, electronics, absurdism and disorientation/ dissonance of 7th Harmonic Progression (Since Stravinsky, Cage and Schoenberg’s 12 tone row Music and Atonality of Harmonization) evolution of Western Improvised Music and how notes play and form a meaning in the entire bar filled with chords one after another flowing to the next bar or movement. The margins of these images play a negative space in between and the crux of these project.

Though each note carries its history and the life of the musician, the entirety of the composition creates the story. Be it a question or a response or in between.