Towards a painting unbound by time.
The Kalichakra series is to look into that aspect of everyday matters that is bound and unbound by time. Kalichakra is everything that is timeless, untimebound or out of the realm of time. Kalachakra its opposite is time and everything that is under the influence of time. This series was to look more closely into that aspect of us that is time bound and untimebound.
Certain assumptions have to be made: the purest mark that is made is when time is not figured in its making. For example, when an insight pops up, the idea at its purest, is then manipulated by thinking and with time is changed from its original form. Time bound aspects in a composition can be seen as those deliberate aspects of the composition where planning is involved. The coming together of a painting because of planning. A kalichakra mark that is timeless on the canvas, to me, is one that is made, as soon as it comes to you. There is no prior planning, or an idea in the works, before a painting is started. A Kalichakra painting is made only when you come to your canvas and the first mark is made with no prior idea of what is to come. It is almost the purest form of spontaneity and allowing chance to create the painting. It is the best tool I feel for finding a composition that is new. It is taking 2 aspects of painting that plays some part in composition building and giving it prominence.
The idea here is not to question the thought when it comes up as to what to do next.
But I know the compositions will be quirky and strange perhaps to the viewer. But an image untainted by time through thought is a one off original. Thought is conditioned and it gets its information from the past, which is not new. But a Kalichakra painting is a painting that is out of the realm of time. In my paintings now you can identify parts that are untimebound and parts where the original insight has been turned over and they both sit next to each other – for now.