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Artist Statement Crash “It’s the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you're bumped, brush past people. In LA, no one touches you....We're always behind metal and glass. Think we miss that touch so much, we crash into each other just to feel something real ”…. This idea lead me to think about the idea of Identity, what it really means and the idea do we really know who you are? Being British Indian I am questioning the idea of what makes me more Indian or British and visa versa? So the sculptures you see here are questioning this idea through using an object, in this case a toy (object of my child-hood, memory, nostalgia) and covering it in plaster and turmeric (food powder used in every day Indian cooking the aromatic rhizome of an Asian plant, of the ginger family). So I have taken the toys identity away and gave it a new meaning, or given no meaning at all? Whether it’s about real life or fiction it asks the question to you the view about what you’re identity is and who you really are? The paintings are based upon the ideologies of coincidences and symbols that express such ideas through visual communication. Communication of these ideas is about ‘Synchronicity’ which is: meaningf... [ Read all ]