These paintings are evolutions from my ongoing experiments with material and lighting. Here, I choose to focus not on the objects being painted, but on their hyper-real closeups. Shine, texture, form, color and shadow combine to present an abstracted
non-representational image that conceals as much as it reveals - showcasing still life like never before.

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Though this deliberate act of elimination and simplification, I seek to demonstrate that - Things are not as they are seen, nor are they otherwise. The abstraction is as true as the whole picture and every person chooses their version of ‘reality’ – irrespective of whether you acknowledge the whole or only parts of it.

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Part still life, part drama – these paintings offer a different mode of seeing. A metaphor suggestive of the lenses that we use to define our subjective reality. They raise a pertinent question, “What does reality mean?”. How objective is our view of the world?

Or is reality merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one!!

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These paintings are oil on aluminium cradled panels