Name
SUMBAL NAYYAB
Roll No.
20606
Department
Painting
Topic
Shadow
At times we ponder that the person you see in the mirror is nothing more than a persona – A façade of someone you might not identify or even recognise. That unknown you, which you have kept hidden and away from the world is your ‘Shadow’. Beneath the conscious light, is a whole world of Darkness – containing all those aspects of ourselves that we strive to ignore, hide and repress. In as early as our childhood, we discover an unseen line between what is ‘acceptable’ and
‘unacceptable’ in the society. And anything that is former results in the cluster of what Jung calls a Shadow.
BODY OF WORK
Title: The Voyage
Dimension: 720 X 1080 pixels
Medium: Digital Art
Description:
Just like the consistent journey of Koi Fish through the yellow river, we let our lives be dictated by the natural flow. Not minding how perfect it appears in the stillness. And despite having a glance from our Shadow, we shove it back and continue the endless journey. No matter how meaningless, it might appear. Because that is easy, to collect the broken pieces of shards and to get hurt.
Title: No Face
Dimensions: 1080 X 1920 pixels
Medium: Digital Art Description:
The moment we develop consciousness, we start to observe our surroundings and intaking what we learn to ‘acceptable’ in order to adjust. We tie ourselves to many masks while the real us stray tangled in the mess we create. And instead of integrating it into our personality, we let it sleep inside, forever.
Title: Inexorable opposites
Dimension: 1080 X 1920
Medium: Digital Art Description:
Each end contains the seed of its opposite. We’ve heard this from ancient concept of China but never realised how it actually implements in our lives. To fly in spirituality, one must first drown in the hell of secular. To build a garden, we must first let the flower of devil bloom and once it’s bloom we would know how beautiful and fundamental it had always been.
Title: In control
Dimensions: 1080 X 1920 pixels
Medium: Digital Art Description:
The more we relegate from our conscious the more we let our Shadow grow. And as we lose our identity from our conscious, we give more identity to the shadow and let it grow. First, its just the face, soon the shadow would be more of us than we, ourselves.
Title: Satori
Medium: Installation Description:
We have the capacity to do as much evil as any person which we deem evil. That was the reason why Satori – a harmless mythological creature was feared by many. He simply brought forth the thoughts that we harbor for each other or oneself; which could be considered a inhuman by us.
