Series: "The Exquisite Corpse"
A series of paintings created in 2010 for a Solo Exhibition at the Visual Arts Gallery at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India, in December 2010.

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The paintings for "The Exquisite Corpse" are created
through a process that combines various strategies.
Magazine ads, art history books, entertainment magazine
pictures, comics etc. are used to create unique collages.
These are scanned and reworked digitally and are laser
printed on canvas. The works are then enhanced with
hand painted sections of oil color; lastly, they are collaged
with graphics.

The title is derived from a game played by Surrealists in Paris in the 1930's.
The parlor game involved passing a piece of paper between different people
who did not know what the previous image, which was covered, contained.
At the end of the game, there was a curious but shocking juxtaposition of
strange images that formed an enigmatic diagram. The meaning of the
final image was for the viewer to determine.

With this as inspiration, I have created works that are a commentary
of how we now live life in the age of globalization. As we are constantly
bombarded by images through advertising, marketing, social sites,
flashy web content, a sensory overload is created. How we create meaning
in our lives as consumers of this flood of visual stimulation is the subject
of these paintings.

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