Saturday, August 1, 2009

INDEPENDENT ILLUSTRATIONS : travelling into form

The graphic novel intends to communicate a thought process with some degree of success and required me to anchor form to its requirements, thus having chosen to reduce the form(of depicting it) to its symbolic best and put aside all personal expression that illustrating or drawing something spontaneously comes with.
During the course of the project,while i was exploring the visual form i would choose for my narrative,i explored varying degrees of illustration in terms of the balance between form and content.
Through the course of my project, i continued independent illustration along the side, most of which were portraits i drew from memory.
free drawing is an attempt for me to come closer to the act of FEELING, by eliminating all those layers of sight(perception/language/learning)that exist between me and a thing.
My graphic novel talks of this very grey area in between these completes,and through this project i actually wanted to go all the way and explore this balance between one very human act-the act of seeing and one very non human act-that of feeling, both of which are compliments to a whole,and both are parts i like to explore simultaneously, in the hope that they will meet at a larger horizon.
I decided later to thus document the illustrative work i did into a separate book (since they were part of my personal exploration),simply a collection of portraits sans a narrative or concept. when placed by each other's side, the two, work for me as a search into the exptrapolation and hence understanding of form and content- in the first case making thought or that conceptual understanding of the world we have learnt to grow with- primary and the form limited by it, and in the second dissolving the same layers of sight or 'thought' from expression to be able to indulge in form alone.
form-the beautiful shapelessness, the thoughtlessness that an object carries within itself, undefined is what i wish to reach when i look at an object or my own self; representation itself is a conceptual act, yes, but we can strive to come closer to purity within the flaws of being lost. 
attaching some of the works here.





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