Romancing a line
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- Searching for a personal vision of art This is my personal journey of art across 8 years. It’s more of a show and tell about my work & how I got there.
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Romancing a line
- 1. Romancing a line Searching for a personal vision of art 05 Jun 2020, Bengaluru
- 2. 1995 1999 2002 Engineering Design ? Fine arts 2020
- 3. Middle Class Poor Rich Poverty Line Raj Kapoor as Artist Anari 1959 Being Lalita Pawar
- 6. 2011 The peck order Each leg was from a different chicken The beginning
- 7. Chicken Rights Movement Liberty from chicanery Chi Guevera was a revolutionary who fought for the liberty of all chicken. He was betrayed while fighting for the liberation of Burgeria.
- 9. Women Theme
- 13. 2014 The ink pen 3 years later
- 15. Jean Jacque Sempe French cartoonist
- 17. Illustration for a story that a friend wrote Typical traffic scene in Bengaluru
- 19. Me : Scared of spoiling canvas Son : Can I get one more canvas?
- 20. Me : Scared of spoiling drawing Son : Killing it
- 25. The blue bird Poem by Charles Bukowski
- 27. 2016 mob lynchings I was drawing dogs and decided to stop political commentary in cartoons
- 28. Ditched software and switched to hand drawn
- 29. Started to sign using my native language - ‘Telugu’
- 30. Charcoal has a good line quality but is messy.
- 31. Dip pen is beautiful because the line is unpredictable. Ronald Searle The mischievous expressions Ralph Steadman Scathing political satire Settled on a Lamy ink pen of medium thickness.
- 32. Jan 2017 Discovery of India
- 33. 4 week unplanned trip Using only public transport & cheap stay Udaipur - Jodhpur - Jaisalmer - Bikaner - Pushkar - Jaipur
- 39. ● Warm response but not economically viable ● Print, transport, deliver, preserve painful ● Exhibits expensive
- 41. Ways of seeing Look at life with the curiosity of a child
- 42. It takes 8 years to find your voice. Here’s my theory
- 43. Telephonic call How are you making money? Sunil Nambu Pune-based engineer
- 44. 2018 Kochi Biennale 2019 Asiaville CartoonistSomething similar to Dilbert
- 49. Paint what you see Village scenes around my house
- 50. Shit start Terrible paintings Aaron Shwartz Hactivist (commited suicide) Julian Assange Wikileaks founder (jailed)
- 53. Whistleblower A new world is born of the sacrifices of the honest
- 54. Upgraded color palette Conscious attempt at picking colors
- 55. Gogi Saroj Pal Indian artist
- 57. Children of migrant workers Oil on canvas
- 58. Children of migrant workers Colorful birds dislocated to a city
- 59. Workhorse Construction worker as Ashvamedha (the sacrificial horse)
- 61. Varahaavataaram Manual scavenger as Lord Vishnu
- 62. Scenery Nature helps relax the mind
- 63. Brahmanda Cosmic egg (Universe)Purchased in 2003
- 65. I felt seduced!_
- 66. Iteration 1 Brahmanda When a monk is seduced, he draws mandalas. Old internet saying
- 67. Ritualistic practice Walking around the canvas
- 68. Iteration 2 Overdoing it There is no undo (Ctrl+Z)
- 69. Iteration 3 Too big and difficult to handle Brahmanda Cosmic egg (Universe)
- 71. Yoni Reproductive energy present in the universe which carries the seed of life
- 72. Khadi cloth Better than paper.
- 73. Lakhichand Jain Mandana artist Yannima Pikkarli Aboriginal Artist (Australia) Padmashree Shri Jivya Soma Mashe Warli artist
- 74. Spinning thread A Gandhian moment
- 75. Co-worker Wants to be a footballer (Lionel Messi fan)
- 76. One becomes two Division of a cell Contrast was better on a dark background
- 77. I was happy For the first time in 6 months
- 78. Concave surface I wanted a curved surface and not a flat surface
- 80. “Nature always begins by resisting the draughtsman, but he who truly takes it seriously doesn’t let himself be deterred by that resistance; (finally), nature and an honest draughtsman see eye to eye.” – Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Theo van Gogh, 1881
- 81. One becomes two Division of a cell One is unconscious wholeness; two is the conflict of opposites.
- 82. Padmavyuham An inescapable labyrinthe In the Mahabharata, Abhimanyu found himself embroiled in the Padmavyuham and never managing to get out of it. In our lives too we tend to get entangled in the web of life and continue living the myths weaved by others.
- 83. If ‘medium is the message’ then perhaps the ‘medium chooses the messenger’.
- 84. Mahakavi Kalidasu 1960 “I didn’t choose the threads, the threads chose me.” Divine intervention_
- 85. Dasamukha Ravana 3 iterations to get it right
- 86. Dasamukha Ravana 10 heads of Ravana 1. Kama (lust) 2. Krodha (anger) 3. Ahamkara (ego) 4. Lobha (greed) 5. Moha (delusion) 6. Mada (pride) 7. Maatsarya (envy) 8. Manas (mind) 9. Buddhi (intellect) 10. Chitta (consciousness)
- 88. Art reveals itself to the seeker … in myriad ways. Truth I discovered
- 91. 3 takeaways Creative courage James Victore
- 92. ● Discipline ● Commitment ● Rigour Courage is not the absence of fear; It is acting in spite of it.
- 93. Zinda hein wo log jo mauth se takraate hein. Stay young! Conqueror of destiny Alive is he/she who embraces struggle.
- 94. Mar ke jine ki adaa jo duniyaan ko sikhlayega, Wo muqaddar ka sikandar. One who can teach you art even after death, is the ‘Conqueror of Destiny’ Muqaddar ka Sikandar
- 96. Thank you
Editor's Notes
- Hello everyone! Thank for joining in. I’d like to share with you my personal journey of art. It’s more of a show and tell about my work & how I got there.
- To begin with, let me tell you a little bit about my childhood. I grew up in the tribal district of Koraput, Odisha. Amidst nature with trees and hills all around us. This was the 80s. I used to draw well since childhood and won lots of prizes. My dad was an an engineer but mostly spoke of music, literature and the arts. I remember him talking of the brilliance of Vincent Van Gogh and also of his tragic life. We just had a tiny brochure with 4-5 paintings of Van Gogh. But when it came to choosing a career, I chose engineering. Why not fine arts?
- If you grew up watched Hindi cinema on TV, you knew artists were poor. You had 3 classes of people. Rich, Middle class and poor. Middle class never aspired to be rich. They just didn’t want to go back to poverty. My mother would often scare me. She made me feel that if I didn’t study well then we would slip back into poverty. It was probably true.
- But what was the big deal. I did well didn’t I? Bachelors in Engineering, Masters in Design. Aur kya chahiye? What else do you need? Robert Frost wrote this poem poking at his friend. They would go on evening walks. But his friend always lamented not taking the other path. I am that friend. I always felt ‘Should I have taken fine arts?’
- But all through engineering I kept drawing and painting. I would make posters for college fests and events. People called me ‘Fartist’. I collected newspaper articles on ART across 4 years. I made a book of it.
- Since 2004 I worked as a designer. I was in the United States on a H1 visa. I was shopping for chicken. I discovered that the legs were from 2 different chicken. This was from a very highly mechanised farm. I felt the chicken should protest such inhuman treatment.
- I came up with a story of a revolutionary modelled around Che Guevera fighting for chicken rights. I was 3 years into Obama’s presidency and the ‘HOPE’ remained just that.
- Average drawing would take 5 hours. I was using Inkscape software which is an open source alternative to ‘Illustrator’
- I had done sizeable number of drawings and was getting the humor right. I wrote to Nala Ponnappa for advice. He was encouraging and advised me to market my work. I returned to India because my father was unwell. The next 3 years were uneventful.
- I was now working in Bangalore. I discovered the work of a french cartoonist. I lived the simplicity of his lines. His drawing are made from careful observation of people and humor is very subtle. He rarely uses any words. Mostly verging on Pantomime.
- I bought lots of his books.
- I bought an ink pen and started drawing again. This was a drawing from Bellandur in Bengaluru.
- The lines were getting free and fluid.
- I mostly drew cops. Because they were the only ones I saw while driving to work
- ‘Bapu is in love’ - M K Gandhi ; Cassia
- The bluebird - Charles Bukowski There's a bluebird in my heart That wants to get out but I'm too tough I say: "Stay in there I'm not going to let anybody see" There's a bluebird in my heart That wants to get out but I pour whiskey I take a cigarette so the whores The bartenders and the grocery clerks Never know that he is in there There's a bluebird in my heart That wants to get out but I'm too tough I say: "Stay down Do you wanna mess me up? Do you wanna screw up all of my works?" There's a bluebird in my heart That wants to get out but I'm too clever I only let him out at night sometimes When everybody sleeps I say: "I know that you're there Don't be so sad", that's what I said Then I put him back but he's always singing I don't let him die and we sleep together Like that with our secret pact Is nice enough to make a little man weep But I don't weep, do you? Is nice enough to make a little man weep But I don't weep, do you? There is a bluebird messing with my heart What should I do with this little bird? There is a bluebird messing with my heart What could I do with this little bird? I'm turning into a bird, I'm turning into a bird So I will fly with this melancholy
- Alive is the one who embraces struggle. He who teaches how to live a fruitful life even when dead is the conqueror of destiny.
- Alive is the one who embraces struggle. He who teaches how to live a fruitful life even when dead is the conqueror of destiny.