2009, Colour
crayon, water colour, ink, size 84 by 56 inches
Friday, September 13, 2013
The sacred and the divine
To touch upon the sacred, the transcendental, is the ultimate endeavor, the Holy Grail of artistic practice. In the past ten years I explored and searched for themes that expressed different façade of the social make up and beliefs, from gender issues to cross-culturalism, from politics to leisure. I became aware of an underlying driving force that was beyond the rhetorical and the social, something that elevated itself from the petty explanations, rationalizations, and fragmentations. This exerting force reveals itself amazingly at the moments of contact with the secular life and values. Our democratic mind set, academic education, social responsibilities, and family values all suspend when they are in contact with the unreal. I believe this extraordinary drive is the idea of the sacred. Whether this sacredness is of divinity, the supernatural, metaphysical, or simply fantastic banality, it has changed my artistic purpose. I have arrived at a cross road where every artist stands at awe at the complexity and power of art, to almost inspire something at the level of a faith. Not to sound prophetic, this revelation has made me more committed to explore and express this faith. There is that thing of the something beyond, thing of the magical, thing of the miraculous.
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