SIGHT READING

Thoughts felt during the walk around an art exhibition.

Artist: Reji Joseph, Dakshin Chitra Art gallery. 08.03.2018

Twice I did meander through the sea of canvases

As they to each other spoke in a secret language

The codes etched by the painter hand

Colors vibrating on the stretched fabric

I was alone in the drumming quiet

An invader in their oily huddle

Myriad: The colors, the colors

A random hotch-potch of symmetric shapes

Transforming as I gazed

into discarded education imparters

Sticks of colorful chalk talking about hereafter

Discarded by technology. No more vehicles of knowledge transfer

Life I and II: The black tribal motif against a colorful not so detailed flower

Death close at heels of Life. Ever ready to transfer power

My World: An expansive asymmetry. Canvases spaced unevenly

The tree of solidity against icy peaks. Illusion or reality

Opportunity: I stayed for a long time looking into the depths

Willing for forms to appear and guide me into its secrets

Euphoria: An  electrified paramecium LSDeed

A shock, A giggle of wriggles high on speed

Tranquil: The first pass yielded nothing from its confines

On the second  I noticed the branching lines

Hidden amidst the potpourri of colored dots

and I smiled as reflections provoked me to stay longer

Three Stripes: A psychedelic carpenters view of Bark

Love the choice of colors. Anything but stark

Carbon: Blew my mind. So unconventional. Lines intersect, Lines interlink

Frames that beckon closer inspection. Black on Black who would think?

Harras: The untameable Mares of Diomedes

The difficulty Herculean yet executed with ease

Whispering Willows: Intoxicated by the play of chroma

I could write songs. Lost within its heady aroma

Aricane: A primordial soup reflecting the life's origin

Jumanji on canvas. Quietly awaiting a dice spin

Well done Reji. It was an afternoon well spent with the company of your canvases