ARTIST STATEMENT

Why do relationships built on love become tumultuous and challenging? Sometimes, they begin as emblems of joy, but can eventually become difficult and even hurtful. Pranav depicts his unconscious psychosocial experiences in the themes of his expanded development of empathy, emotional turmoil, and turbulence, and new challenges faced within the expansive dimensions of maintaining an intentionally durable loving relationship. His works are the product of the exploration necessary to form a deeper commitment to one another. His practice of understanding his emerging emotions and sharing them with the other to form a deeper, stronger love.

Within these stories are visual depictions of cultural idioms, sexuality, metaphors, semiotics, and Animalia- conveying philosophies helpful to lead a joyful life. These themes ask the viewer to be inclusive to all and to take a step back on their perspective to understand others. More importantly, these themes remind the viewer to breathe before reacting to a stressful situation to maintain a meditative frame of mind. Believing that life is precious to oneself and their loved ones and spending it arguing with each other just to prove one’s point will not make the world a better place. Works are exemplative of the emotional processing of a close relationship and elevating it to the universal audience.

 Pranav creates welcoming energy, offering the viewer an experience that is distinct in its visual stimulation. The use of muted hues as a means of enhancing and electrifying the vivid and bright- opening new understandings into intentional use of color. Both direct and indirect applications of gradation are explored as a means of defining space and optical perceptions. All this contained in the form of graphic characters; arranged in a collagic-mosaic format- projecting the intention of creating paintings with lasting potential for the viewer to luxuriate in the progression of discoveries for years to come.