Vishakha Apte
During long time span of thirty years, the concept in my work has gradually developed from solitude of my working hours, intimacy between human and objects, my immediate urban humanized surroundings with elements from structural spaces that we use every day, to urbanization, disruption and changing relations between humans.
My early works dealt with closed spaces, and the entire things which are being enclosed in that atmosphere, the inadequate areas one has to cope with while living a city life, and a human spending time in it. After few years the objective shapes stretched comfortably in my works with lot of breathing space. In my paintings, these appearances release themselves from their mediocre utilitarian context to convert into pure pictorial forms partly disappearing in the translucent or opaque atmosphere. Occasionally marked with subtle traces of shadows and a hint of human existence, the material converts itself into the living shape within different sights to signify the vagueness and mysteries of human life. The semi-abstract forms and bold lines blur into the background and become visible again to create the feeling of suspension between real and surreal, a dream and the actuality.