Collection: Social and Documentary

Part of the Visual Testimony series, this painting serves as a visual meditation on awareness and transformation. Inspired by Indian philosophical thought, it encourages viewers to move beyond representation and experience the work through contemplation, intuition, and personal reflection.

Part of the Visual Testimony series, this painting serves as a visual meditation on awareness and transformation. Inspired by Indian philosophical thought, it encourages viewers to move beyond representation and experience the work through contemplation, intuition, and personal reflection.

Part of the Visual Testimony series, this painting serves as a visual meditation on awareness and transformation. Inspired by Indian philosophical thought, it encourages viewers to move beyond representation and experience the work through contemplation, intuition, and personal reflection.

Part of the Visual Testimony series, this painting serves as a visual meditation on awareness and transformation. Inspired by Indian philosophical thought, it encourages viewers to move beyond representation and experience the work through contemplation, intuition, and personal reflection.

Part of the Visual Testimony series, this painting serves as a visual meditation on awareness and transformation. Inspired by Indian philosophical thought, it encourages viewers to move beyond representation and experience the work through contemplation, intuition, and personal reflection.

The Joyful Juggle, offers a profound visual commentary on the continuous balancing act that defines modern human existence. Life is treated as an intricate performance—a complex circus where we must perpetually balance ambition, responsibility, relationships, and the unexpected. At the center of this narrative is a surreal figure: a clown balancing on a unicycle, bearing the head of a chess Knight. While the clown attire evokes a sense of superficial entertainment and lightheartedness, the Knight signifies tactical intellect, calculated strategy, and the agility to leap over life's obstacles. Together, they suggest that surviving the human circus requires a delicate fusion of playful adaptability and sharp intelligence. As the figure rides across an uneven checkered floor—which mirrors the binary structures of success and failure, light and shadow—they actively juggle vibrant chess pieces. These pieces represent our shifting daily priorities, highlighting that life demands constant motion and focus to keep our world from collapsing. This frantic, kinetic energy is juxtaposed against a serene, monumental face emerging on the right side of the canvas. Covered in fine script, this meditative entity embodies a higher consciousness or historical memory, quietly observing the chaos from a place of absolute peace. Crucial to the artwork's philosophy is its physical structure, which rejects the rigid boundaries of a traditional rectangular frame in favor of an origami-shaped canvas. By adopting the multi-angled geometry of origami, the piece shatters linear perspectives and actively breaks the regular "box" of conventional thinking. This structural fragmentation mirrors the way paper is folded to reveal new depth, inviting the viewer to explore multiple dimensions of reality and thought. Ultimately, Joyful Juggle suggests that when we step out of traditional mental boundaries, we can discover deeper perspectives, transforming our daily struggles into a beautiful, celebratory performance.

After applying her makeup, a tribal girl adjusts her ankle bells, her face reflected in a mirror placed against a mud wall inside her village in Koraput, Odisha. The photograph captures a quiet and intimate moment of preparation before the performance, reflecting the grace, tradition, and cultural identity of the tribal community.

Three performers sit quietly beside traditional Japanese sake barrels after taking part in a Samurai Festival in Japan. Holding masks that conceal their faces, they rest in silence as the excitement of the festival fades. The photograph captures an intimate moment beyond the performance, where tradition, identity, and quiet reflection come together.

This was a part of my Kashmiri Pandit series , shot at Udhampur . School closed .

Thedrawings on the white canvas is by MF Husain , preparing for the shoot 'Pandarpue ka ek ladka " which was shelved later .

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