“My work emerges from landscape visuals and its various derivations. Land goes through tremendous changes. After years of socio-political and cultural transformations, the organic and architectural skin of the land has been layered with numerous stories. Remnants and relics hidden under the epithelial layer of the land breathe in and breathe out memories. Incessant time transforms dead trees into coal and sometimes into diamonds. Similarly memories recalled transport us into the world of myths and legends. We are the part of an ongoing shadow-play of erasure and excavation of these memories. Life as we feel it arises and passes away every moment. We enter in this stream and then transform. But the ancient lands of the planet remain as a silent witness, always. As an art practitioner I try to be an observer who explores and reflects both the tranquility and its disruptions.”

Sebastian Varghese