I call my current and the latest collection of paintings, Emotional Beast. It reflects on my maturity, which is an outcome of various factors such as my upbringing, spiritual evolution, financial constraints and social struggles. As I look back, I realize how each of these difficult situations overwhelmed me emotionally and brought about a change in the way I think and perceive life, at the time. With time I have reached a space where I can essentially observe my past from an outsider perspective, helping me gauge the shifts in my beliefs and emotional evolution more objectively. I have been able to grasp how the ups and downs of lives define our personality, as my own view of my life turned more subtle and accepting. As I travel deeper in to these planes of human behavior and perceive the meaning of my personal battles, I reach for my brush voluntarily as words can express only so much!

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One thing I am certain of, is the colour palette which informs of my overwhelming emotional conflicts and the resulting transformation, should be natural. The shades of red and green that I use are as organic as my thought process and my feelings. These are also instinctively influenced by the hues of the landscape as well as the organic shades used in the traditional ritualistic art forms of the place I was born into and grew up in. The red in Theyyam and green in Kadhakali, two of the popular ritualistic traditional performance art forms of Kerala(the Southern most state in India) are crucial to the performance of these art forms. I aspire to continue visualizing the relevance and energy of my evolved emotional maturity using these bold shades.