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Susanta Paral
For an artist the canvas becomes
the combat zone and the brushes his weapons. There he struggles
to fight his battle, there he protests, there he leaves his
small signature of presence as a thinking human being. There
also he expresses his pains of confinement.My
works are essentially a repertoire of those anxious feelings
dammed by the invisible borders in our life. My paintings
have been influenced by Cubism. But then my paintings are
not strictly geometrical. Each shape and form in my canvas
is confined by a black border. The black borders are not intentional.
They came to me naturally as I later discovered. They are
not just a way of painting but they are the boundaries of
our existence, hibernating in the subconscious: the boundaries
of our society, the country, and the whole world. And to relate
those to my life, they are the boundaries of my own life--they
are the physical, social, educational, cultural and financial
limitations in which I function since childhood; they are
the limitations of me the painter. I could not cross those
barriers till date but now I definitely can share them with
others.
So I live in deep anxiety and that perhaps is reflective of
my works. They are like portents of our future as we see them
in our present. They are the uncertainties and anguishes of
our times. They are my tribute to difficult human existence,
the social malaise that shape our being and inspire an artist
to paint reality.
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