untitle-1 (Graffiti series)

The wall was a repeating metaphor in most of my earlier works. But they used to be another formal element in the overall scheme of things. In this series I made the wall as my object and the surface too. I found an interesting feature while dealing with wall in the paintings. As a medium, painting generally falls within the elite arts. But while making the wall as a theme and subject I felt it could alter the enter dynamics attached to the sophisticated medium of painting as such. Wall as a site is public. It is a palimpsest of various inscriptions which talk about various ideologies and traits of the existing society. It’s a site of contestation where contradicting ideologies compete to get a larger visibility in the public domain.