Inside Out
“Your strength lies in three-dimensional geometric perception and analytical thought”, said the career counsellor when I was about to embark on the journey to build a lifelong career. I was only eighteen at the time and had no idea what life had in store for me, how many turns and bypasses it would take me on. Eager to start my life, I decided on the stable and honourable career path of Civil Engineering. Little did I know how boring and unglamorous it would be. It took another seventeen years before I decided to change course, grab my life by the wheel to turn the ship around. That change led me to a creative and constant unfolding career as a photographic artist. Even though I identify today as an artist and make fun of my nerdy engineering friends, I can’t deny that even though I proclaim myself as a cool artiste, deep inside of me is a geometric loving nerd. Albeit, now I am a creative nerd. Now, wherever I go, I find myself gravitating towards the geometric harmony in shapes, lines and light.
In my eyes, art is not meant to show the obvious. That is why I find so many of my images are created using daytime long exposure photography. The human eye does not perceive reality as a long exposure image. The juxtaposition of eternal versus temporary, the drama of a streaky sky or the elimination of detail to highlight the essence is what fascinates me. I find myself mainly shooting outside, on the constant pursuit of architecturally compelling subjects. On the rare occasion, my addiction to modern style architecture takes me indoors as well. Over the years, I have accumulated a collection of indoor images from my travels that have not made their way out of the womb and have remained in the incubation folder in the basement of my hard drive.
2020 happened. Not being able to travel due to the global pandemic, confined to the indoors, I found myself going through my endless bank of images. Then it hit me, why don’t I take my indoors outside. I decided to combine my two passions, geometric spaces and long exposure to create a surreal series taking the inside out. All those interior shots that just didn’t have the right punch can now be reborn. Building upon their backdrop sets the stage for a more complex story once a long exposure sky was integrated. The results are composite stories that portray aesthetic balance in a dreamlike environment creating their own story. What story do you see?
