Meena Mangalvedhekar
I am a simple being who likes to search, observe, create and express. With
A quench to know people; what makes them what breaks them. My attempt is to
experience my surroundings, understand its situations and interact through
visuals.
The deeply rooted Indian urben and rural culture, previous job in photojournalism, trekking and travelling in Asia and Europe made me discover myself.
Here, in US and in U of M, I am trying to fit in the new role in life,
blend in the new surroundings. Compromise, negotiate and fight with myself
and my relevantly irrelevant thoughts. Making ends meet and strike a
balance to rule out the creases and master the tight rope. The SAD exhibition
has started just another constant debate, after smashing few of my believes
it provokes me to ford on a new trail in search of new perspective of thinking altogether.
The sparks of creativity are my lessons from the past. Often they are
concentrated entirety of experiences. I am about to come full to the brim
with them learning to shift them, sort and arrange them, to translate the
abstract into the tangible. They are born to mould them into meaningful
nuances of my creative being.
My primary idea is to take something ordinary and turn it larger than life
on basis of sheer observation. I want to exploit the way my camera sees,
re-emerge with unusual mediums to reinvigorate physical and emotional
dialogue with the viewers. Emotions, storytelling and overall content are
more important than technique for me. As 'light' doesn't have a given form,
it challenges me often to fiddle with. How it might shape in thoroughly
changed atmosphere splitting white light into its complementary colors,
overlapping reflections and transmission to create color speaking patterns.
My new venture is to engage pixels while editing to break my own boundaries
of visualization. I endlessly wish to apply this as my ideal pallet.
I respect all the good work out there by known and unknown artists. Still I
trust my silent dreams. Their uneven, almost jarring content is waiting to
be brought alive.