My stripes are my trip

Paint stripes is like create a mountain or a rock. Slow and repetitive. moving my hand from side to side like i always do, not forcing any image to come. i try to keep the surface even and calm. I am doing it because sometime, not always, when it is happening  i feel happy.

100 X 100 cm

oil on canvas



i love colors and I love paint stripes.

First time i heard Jenny Holzer said in an interviw: "i don't want to be a third-generation of stripes painters" the words hits me and i knew for sure what i want to be when i will grow up. And if not third-generation, first generation of stripes painters is enough for me.

 100 x 40 cm

oil on canvas

 60 x 40 cm

oil on canvas

40 X 50 cm

oil on canvas  

 100 x 40 cm

oil on canvas

 60 x 40 cm

oil on canvas



i've got alot of courage and inspiration from Sean Landers. He showed me that Stripes can still be original, radical, and critical. it was that time when i left the masking tape for ever as i always wanted to do.



 

this group of sketches i did in 2005 on my balcony in Dharamkot  in North of India, facing the Himalaya mountains. 

all sketches done with poster colors on A4 size paper.