Gulam

The Pawn or Soldier is a coin which is most effected. The game of Chess is all about the King. The game goes on until the King is safe. All the coins work hard to just save the King and usually the first casualty in the game is the Pawn. Nobody cares how many and when the pawn is sacrificed. It is as if the Pawn is just there for sacrifice.

This painting of mine is a dedication to this common and humble coin, the pawn. Gulam is a Urdu word for slave. 

Title : Gulam

Size : 18 X 24 inches

Medium : Acrylic on canvas

Year of Execution : 2017

Circle Of Life - 2

This is also one of my favourite works. I do believe in the term To each his own. For me, if I like the journey as well as the destination then that is joy.  If I do not enjoy the process of painting, then I feel the painting is incomplete. It was in the middle of the night when sudden inspiration struck me and I just poured color on the canvas and created textures on it. Locked it in a room to dry overnight and to keep it away from my naughty cats. Except for the white part, I had absolutely no control over how the texture would come out..... and that is what I liked about this work. It is an extension of one of my earlier work, The King. Again here by bringing more of black and keeping blue to the minimum I wanted to show to myself that I can and should experiment with all colors. One has to observe closely in this painting for the minute details like the chess coins hidden in the white portion. 

Title : Circle of Life -2

Size : 16 X24 inches

Medium : Acrylic on canvas

Year of Execution : 2017

Roles and Rules

This is probably one of my favourite paintings. I immensely enjoyed the process of painting this one. The controlling quality of the geometric shapes and the free flowing colors inside them gave a kind of pleasure to me while working that I had never experienced before. 

This painting is titled Roles and Rules. I usually let people form their own understanding about my art works. But when I am asked, I do have an explanation to most of my paintings. This painting represents the roles of chess coins in the game and the roles they play. The King is the main coin in the game of chess, hence the height and form and position. The Queen though shorter in size is place a bit higher to show that she controls most things in the game. The horse is placed thus to show its unique ability to jump over  and come out of a tricky place. The first one to fall and the usual suspect who falls in the game of chess is the Pawn. Hence the depiction. I can still goon and on. but I think that this is enough for now.

Title : Roles and Rules

Size 24 X 30 inches

Medium : Acrylic on Canvas

Year of Execution : 2016

Battle

This is not a very good photograph.... 

The game of Chess is all about the King. The game goes on until the King is safe. All the coins work hard to just save the King and usually the first casualty in the game is the Pawn. Nobody cares how many and when the pawn is sacrificed. It is as if the Pawn is just there for sacrifice.

This painting of mine is to show the unjust system of our society where it is always the common man who falls when big decisions are made by the authority or the people in power. Through this painting i also wanted to depict the effects of war... There are always casualties...regardless of defeat or victory.

Title : Its all about the King -3

Size : 24 x30inches

Medium : Acrylic on canvas

Year of Execution : 2016

Chess

I did this work for my first year MFA exam. It was a spur of the moment idea/execution kinda work. Not a very well thought out painting. But I like that kind of works. I have been planning to work on this idea again but haven't done it so far.... hopefully I will be doing it soon.

It's All About the King

The game of Chess is all about the King. The game goes on until the King is safe. All the coins work hard to just save the King and usually the first casualty in the game is the Pawn. Nobody cares how many and when the pawn is sacrificed. It is as if the Pawn is just there for sacrifice.

This painting of mine is to show the unjust system of our society where it is always the common man who falls when big decisions are made by the authority or the people in power.

Title : Its all about the King -1

Size : 24 x30inches

Medium : Acrylic on canvas

Year of Execution : 2015