Category: Pscyhe

silent reckoning

This body of work explores betrayal, moral ambiguity, and inner conflict through figurative expressionism. Each painting originates from a real-life emotional imprint.

Figures are morphed, placed in enigmatic settings. Animals serve as psychological reflections. The work invites discomfort and silence. Oil as a medium is used for its capacity to hold emotional weight.

This is not art for comfort. It is a moral witness, a visual time capsule for those willing to confront what lies beneath the surface.

Description of an art project as a preparation

8 November, 2025

drowning in theory

Never working on art, finished paintings are not to be seen. Is it fear lurking beneath?

Research spirals into endless ruminations, masquerading as progress. Waiting for the “perfect” conceptual depth; perfectionism masks fear of public judgment.

Hiding behind “multiple paths” to dodge the terror of committing to one signature body of work. Years go by and the mid-life crisis threatens.

4 November, 2025

colour of pain

Is it purple, like bruises that refuse to heal, burning within. Or red, sharp and alive, gushing from broken heart. Like grey, a heavy cloud of melancholy that fogs the mind.

And when it settles, perhaps it turns to brown, the shade of what remains after, memories etched deeper than the wound itself, traces of what we’ve lived through.

And when it all ends, the tears dry and harden into earth, a dark soil from which a new day arises.

3 November, 2025

Epitaph

Weep not nor relent

My life to you was only lent

In love we lived, in peace I died

You asked my life it was denied

Grieve not nor to sorrow take

But love my children for my sake

–

From an epitaph on a tombstone of Teresa D’ Vaz, wife of a heartbroken man, Andrew D’ Vaz. Aged 26 years, she left him too early with a wound, a void and children who remind of her. They entered into a covenant, till death do them part. Yet death separated them.

The gravestone made in 1889, stands remarkably intact here in Our Lady of Good Health Catholic Cemetery, Cuddapah. It has withstood the test of time through generations, standing among the graves of brown men and women. Carved by undertaker/sculptor, Samuel Mullenex from Bangalore.

12 December, 2021 Add Comment