Dichotomy of Existence

My work is an exploration of self & the urban environment, where we are busy creating a world of material & objects around us. The aspiration of the urban being is changing rapidly & he is trying to cope up with the material world that works in different paces for different people. We are being judged continuously in today’s world. One feels trapped, regardless of however much we try to turn our heads away from that reality. We exist in a material chaos but we work towards camouflaging the truth, we are busy creating the physical space, but mentally we are burdened by the overflowing demand of the world we live in, creating a contradiction of our own existence. My work is based on surreal imagery & a metaphoric representation of self in the urban world. I have been dealing with the changing urbanization in the last few years & expressing my reaction towards it over the years in form of photography, Photography based digital imagery, Installation & video. I am looking to create new works that juxtapose self and the changing urban environment of the city I live in. Here I am questioning our existence in this urban space and its affect on human conditions. I look to photograph a series of self portraits as well as images that contradict nature and the urban space along with supplementary urban subject matter, capturing the details of various urban objects. The shapes that appear are played against the architectural surface, which corresponds with the figure and composition. I plan to develop the idea further and explore the present condition of urban as well as the changing rural spaces. Cities and towns have become a subject of sudden urban changes in the name of development, creating a decay of its own past.The rural spaces are also getting influenced by these superficial and physical changes, without understanding the nuances to this rapid overgrowth of the concrete world. The experience of abundance leads us to an alternate experience of emptiness. I would like to take on that contradiction as the next step towards my visual exploration. I would like to explore various aspects of sustainable development in my own way, looking for a newer dimension. I have been continuously witnessing the distortion and division of space and nature almost sewn together and this has led me to recreate that distortion and compartmentalization in my visual imagery.