milli's paintings

Milli's work

I have always been fascinated by colours and shapes: juxtaposed in unexpected contexts. Ever science I began dabbling in medium of painting, I have tried to bring some order into my vision of the world in a creative manner. Friends say I look at the world obliquely, some observe that my perception is ‘unusual. I have never understood them. What can I do if I begin to see a luxurious moustache on child’s face? Or Mona Lisa smiling mischievously from behind chick-curtains? That is how I see the world and that is how I try to find meaning in the images I see and try to create. It is never my intention to create comic images deliberately or to create unexpected images to amuse. The world appears to me like that.
It obviously is or at least looks different from the world my friends tend to see. Theirs is a logical, organized world. Mine perhaps is not. But my obsession with painting is one way of finding the logic in what I see and perceive. To bring order, logic in the quaint images that come to me and create a new world that throbs with its own vitality, its own voice, its own life. It is possible that this world is not as transient as theirs or as ‘meaningful’ as theirs. But do we give meaning or do we find meaning, to what we see? I try to discover and find.
I believe that there is vast territory of experiences beyond intellectual perception and it is populated by things that are not definable or describable. So I do not bother to describe them. I just try to reproduce that. Whether I succeed or not in my attempt to do that is another matter, but that has been my effort. This is what music does. It evokes all those moving shapes hidden in the green depths of one’s mind. My sole aim has been to reach that level of expression where abstract becomes simple gets merged with mundane and surreal is becomes real and more permanent then the real.
Silence and space are two areas I would like to probe into. I think it is these two pillars of pivotal importance that Art stands on. If I am able to delve deep into these areas, I hope to ‘understand’ my craft better in terms of shaping my own idiom.