ARTIST JOURNEY
Art life chose me in a small tranquil hill town in the Kumaon Hills of Uttarakhand state. This encouraged me to relocate to New Delhi, the Cultural Capital to follow my calling. After working day and night for over 11 years with various artists, artisans, tribes, children, nations until one day I felt completely lost and a total stranger to myself. I took a step back, left behind everything that I was doing and here began a journey of inner exploration in search of Truth of who exactly I am inside my studio.
She questions what is the purpose of life or the very origin of life itself? What is the law of the universe? There is no visible thread connecting Sun to the Earth or Earth to the Moon, so what is it that’s holding everything in place and in perfect order? I breath this air, vital for my existence but I can’t see it. Shaken up in this whirlpool, it’s time to confront the fears and feel the pain of not knowing. It’s time to look within and eagerly enquire- Why am I here, where am I going, What is I.Me.Mine and Who am I? Living in a world of make believe, am I really alive or sleepwalking? I want to seek what is real and what is not real. Is That in me or am I in That, or is That not in me; nor am I in That?
On this journey of Self enquiry, the artist takes a leap of faith into the abyss, with no boundaries and limitations, to experience the existential reality.
“What does it take to fathom the ocean, even fish or whale is clueless of the ocean. It is only the salt that can be the ocean, all I became is the salt doll, just a plunge made me the ocean.”-By Sadhguru ‘That is in me and I am in That.’ It is that ‘One Truth’ the wise call be many names, that disperse the ‘Radiance of Cosmic Consciousness’.