Mixed Media – 48’x48’
The ‘Distracted’ series is the artist’s take on the transition phase of us, humans, from reality to the glam struck social frenzy behavior.
This artwork ‘ Distracted – Lotus’ is artist’s way of showing diversion of beautiful lotus petals from its core, its roots, its leaf, but shining for the outside world. The artwork attempts to highlight the contrast of humanity as to how we are while depicting ourselves on social media and to the outside world (in gold and glam); but how distracted and detached we are from our roots of simplicity, humanity and deep hearted love and affection (the golden leaf)
Lotus is a symbol of purity, enlightenment and life.. A lotus is always attached to its leaf; but this frenzy of social acceptance and social fame makes the lotus detached and distracted from its leaf, its true core. The artist has painted the elements of lotus and leaf in halves to show that only half of the true humanity, as pure as the metal gold, is left in the world. Life is a gift of God and it’s as precious as the natural metal gold but if being detached from the roots, it would soon wear out!