PHILOMATH: OLDIES

SLEEPING HEART

“Has my heart gone to sleep? ’’ This is the opening line to Antonio Machado’s poem of the same title. I felt it to be a poem about ambition and the restlessness of the wakeful heart. How our minds sometimes drive us mad into a sea of thoughts, desires, ideas and plans. How it also forecast about near storms, calm waters ahead. I “ read this poem on a moody night trying to find answers. Trying to find a rest to showing stream of thoughts. As I read this line, I just couldn’t get over the question, “Has my heart gone to sleep?’’. No it hasn’t. It’s just live said my mind

Before red


sribble


Looking out

River

Live studies are always interesting to do. It’s a kind of a meditation, to not just to learn about the human anatomy but a deep dive into the mind of the artist and the art. In short it can speak volumes. And so here are a few live studies and sketch I did...


Life study, water colour

Life study, water colour

Live study, watercolour on paper

LIVE STUDY


THE OLD ONE


SLEEPY


STORY TIME

WATER

It’s been a little boring lately, stuck in my workspace all day. But I find pausing a minute and looking out of my window taking in the green fields, houses, the road snaking its way through the tall trees a calming exercise .It’s easy to lose track of time looking for birds and squirrels. Every time I look out, I find more and more things to discover. Stories to unravel.


FACES ink and pencil

ROOF

MOVING

SLEEPY

It’s funny how some stories just stay in my mind. It might be something I read or heard ages ago about which I haven’t thought of in a long time. It just randomly pops up in my brain while sketching and scribbling. Starting a recollection of many related memories and search for many more stories.

FLIGHT

NEW PAGE

PLACES

WAITING TOGETHER


SKETCHING ON 21/15cm Pencil on paper


JUST LOOKING 21/15cm Pen on paper

BORED 21/15cm Ink on paper

WAY TO HEAVEN

THE LONE WOLF

ABSOLUTE IMMERSION

I have been thinking about “journeys” a lot lately, not just about going from one place to the other physically but the mind, about goals we setup for our selves, how we’ve grown in our minds. It feels like a complete displacement of mind from a familiar land so simple to a vast ocean unbound and wild, free to roam but I am the captain. I am the one who commands, man the decks, set the sails and all. And in this journey I have learned a lot but even more to learn. But the awaiting destinations, discoveries are just simply wonderful. And some time to look at the reflections and acknowledging the changes is a marvellous experience, to relax for just a moment, to take a step back and just look.

AWAITING


REFLECT

RELAX

FRUITS

We aspire for something. Wish upon on a flying star hoping that we’ll reach the sky and above. Hoping that all the long hours of work and sleepless nights of dreaming will become reality one day, it might be heart breaking to see that we haven’t reached were we want to be. But this heartbreak is what makes the journey worth every single stumble. Becoming stronger and steady as we sore up high.

21/15cm

By the sea 21/15cm pen on paper

Still life 21/15cm pen on paper

Maybe the most unsettling thing in this world is the fear of not ‘knowing’ being lost of once perspective and identity. And I guess that’s why we as a species ever since developed the mind to think strive to know, constantly examining, challenging, and improving and that’s how the world goes on. And this quest to a higher self is jarring at first but can be turned into a pleasant journey. I sometimes find shelter in books or kind words of people around me slowly finding my way through the dark, always trying to look beyond, with so much unfinished books I’m constantly on the move.