Painting people from my immediate surrounding, engaged in their routines, provides an unfiltered and real source of inspiration. The subject offers, apart from the technical challenge of capturing the play of light and movement, an immense scope for examining the human condition.
Every time I remove these strangers from their backdrop and paint them fully immersed in their pre-occupations, I remind myself of my transience – my personal aspirations or broader societal issues, everything pales in the face of my mortality. We are here today, bustling, and gone tomorrow. Yet, perhaps as a sign of defiance or sheer ignorance, we live each day like we’ll last forever.
We continue to work.