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DAR DAHLEEZ…Conversations with the Canvas
I
sat one day, in my studio, in front of a blank canvas and reflected. To some extent, the raw canvas is a threshold, a Dahleez
and to another extent, it is a Door, Dar, or, darwaza. As a Dahleez, the blank canvas has the potential to transform into
a work of art and as a Dar, it has the potential to transform me as I begin my journey, getting deeper and deeper into the
painting, which is yet to be.
But isn’t it the same thing?
Once the self is dissolved, the canvas is not two. It is two because of the dividing line and when that dissolves, then in
is out and out is within.
These canvases, these Dar-Dahleez, modulate
into the unpredictable and deal with the very inner energy. I strip the over layers to get close to my innerself and experience
the profound consequences, both at conceptual and formal levels.
It
could be the rippling gradation of sea, transparent tender dew drops appearing on lifeless crushed ochre, umber leaves. Some
left out impressions of time on the desert sand, or a specific captured impressionable moment which inspires me. And my thoughts
sometime flow through the figurative and sometime through the formless abstraction and I drop myself in between these two,
perhaps first from Dar, and then, Dahleez and then, the outburst from Dar Dahleez.
Each
canvas has dealt with one such moment. And the revealing truth of that moment is the very basis of these works. These paintings
are my own Conversations with the Canvas.
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(C) Geeta Vadhera, 2005, 2006,2007,2008
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