Riddhi Patel

Medium: Acrylic on Khadi Size: 15 x 15 inch (x9)

Medium: Acrylic on Khadi Size: 15 x 15 inch (x9)


Medium: Acrylic on Khadi Size: 15 x 15 inch (x9)
Interpretation of Nature and its environment which is complex yet simple is like a dance. And it is this dance that makes perception attainable to us. As the Taoist suggests, ‘The most inspiring instance is to stay quietly content with the mystical contemplation of nature and to feel at home with the world’. My artwork takes a critical view of silent and the transcendent nature. I bring in textures and patterns inspired from tapestries, curtains or wood grains into a solitude space and confront it with intentions of serenity. I believe that there is a certain meditative energy involved in the process of making. The repetition of lines, continuous involvement, thin brushstrokes and subtle colours are therapeutic healing to me.
To begin work I usually think of waterbodies like sea and ocean and their expanse. I often correlate this vision with the warp and weft. When you witness an ocean, you notice its endless and infinite nature. To me, just an imaginary glimpse of it makes me feel insignificant. There is no boundary to lay focus on. Its vast and you almost seem like an ant in front the Himalayas. Such is the nature of warp and weft. Its endless and uncountable. Where the water constitutes the ocean, here, the thread constitutes the framework. This ideology often becomes the groundwork for my construction. I aim my work to serve as a purpose of vehicle to achieve and attain something which is more abstract and transcendental.