Between broken and brooding forms, the artist builds both calm and chaotic worlds that are close to but not in the clouds. Their work freezes forms in mid-step as they journey through flux and nature, morphing it into contemporary musings about the soul persisting in a culture of mass-marketed madness. The work recalls artists like Bosch, Blake, Moreau, Redon and Sutherland, and reveals hope and damnation through exotic sculptural forms.

1. calm and chaotic worlds
close to the clouds
but not quite
Akhtar Husain
www.akhtarart.com

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47. Between broken and brooding form, my work builds both calm and chaotic worlds,
close to the clouds but not quite.
Creeping dreams which escape into euphoria, eyes dwelling on the fantastic and the
fleeting. Forms freeze in mid-step in a thicket of flux, on secret journeys which
morph Nature into contemporary musings about the stubborn persistence of the
soul in a culture saturated by mass marketed madness, revealing morality to be as
abstract and equivocal as it usually is.
My work recalls Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon
and Graham Sutherland.
It reveals golden hope and spiked damnation in exotic sculptural forms which tower
above our heads, lifting us out of the ordinary, even if only for a moment.
Akhtar Husain
www.akhtarart.com