I am a Singaporean who grew up in Kabul Afghanistan during the late 70’ and 80’s. I am a trained architect (B.Arch) and a Fashion designer who graduated from the leading Fashion Design College, The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) New Delhi. Over the past two decades I have taught fashion design, illustration, design history in various fashion institutes such as LaSalle School of the Arts and NIFT. I have illustrated WHO books on disability and done a lot of socially conscious work over the past decades.
Over the years I has studied Art, Architecture, Jewelry and Design all over the world with significant time especially in Europe and the Asia Pacific. This has enabled me to incorporate cross-cultural elements in my designs be it in painting, jewelry or art.
I have a passion for art not restricting myself to painting but in the design of jewelry, Furniture and shoes. I am the proud creator of a plethora of work with over 300 paintings in various mediums such as Pen and Ink, Pencil Color, Charcoal, Acrylic and Watercolors.
Singapore emerged as an independent state in 1965 and has since become one of the most prosperous nations in the world. This inspiring fifty years has been captured in a range of emotions among Singaporeans reflecting their journey. This journey of ups and downs, of opposite and contrary emotions, interdependent and interconnected, expresses the complimentary forces of the Yin and the Yang.
This series of 20 paintings in ten pairs has been inspired by the duality of the Yin and Yang of emotions much like fire and water, light and dark, expanding and contracting and so on as seen in the natural world. Hence joy becomes the compliment of sorrow, Ecstasy the compliment of Agony etc.
The human mind is the root of all our emotions, thoughts and behavior, its communication being through brainwaves. Waves follow the principle of the Yin and Yang of energy, the creation of the trough being dependent on the formation of the crest.
Visual elements of Chinese opera along with wave forms and elements from nature have been adapted with a minimalist modern approach inspired by Lakshmi’s background in Architecture and Fashion design. Shapes are formed in the viewers mind without defining contours of the face with a degree of realism in the eyes and the mouth to enhance a particular emotion.
The colours used are Black, White and Red. Black and White depict the traditional Yin Yang showing opposing elements and Red and White represent the colours of the Singapore flag.
The choice of paper is in line with its use through the ages in Chinese paintings. Acrylic, a modern medium is in line with the minimalistic style and precise nature of the paintings hence the blend.
Size: 64cm x 94cm
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