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Artist Statement for Joel Suganth
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My current series of paintings is a reflection of my thought process, or rather, they use my own thought process as a model.
Let’s say I am having tea. The activity is having tea, but inside my head a lot of things happen: I remember a train trip, the view from the train window, the taste of tea, smell of sambar, a touch, a neem leaf…these are separate but yet connected thorough me… part of the whole.
The grid I set up helps me achieve something similar. I start painting in one ‘box’ and suddenly I’ll feel like painting something else and I’ll start that in another ‘box’. Soon ideas for each section of the grid develop. In some sections, I put colors together to see what happens, how they react together; and then I toy with them until I see something that satisfies me. I use colors only some times.
Sometimes the colors I choose to put in are adapted from things that capture my fantasy, like a girl wearing a red salwar and a blue dhupatta with gray dots. Sometimes I use color codes to tell a story, like turquoise green and white for two friends. I plotted the events in their life on different grids.
In addition, I write, in Tamil, in some sections. I like the look and feel of Tamil script, and the text is only partially legible, conveying a sense of meaning, but not words that limit meaning—making some sense but not in the usual way language is used to convey meaning.
This series began in Thiruchy, where I wanted to paint portraits of my friends on a canvas and say something about them. So, I painted six such portraits on a 3’ x 3’ canvas and made a outline of them in green, separating them from the background of the canvas. Later, I began to cello-tape the grid, and this separation led to the way that I am currently working. I find that I can explore many new possibilities with this system.
Joel Suganth 16 April 2007
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