Pen & Dairy

By Ms. Sarah(Journalist)

Ever since the ages, Art has been the most ancient, the purest and an aesthetical medium of carving concrete forms out of indefinite and infinite abstract thoughts that run into human mind.
Rakesh Singh is just a successor of all the ascetics who understood and worshipped Art; of those, who found Art in themselves and themselves in Art.
Bright and vibrant colors, powerful and stormy strokes, is what we see when we first look at Rakesh’s paintings. But these are not just colors and strokes. These colors and strokes collaboratively silhouettes something-something beyond the canvas-something towards the horizon of human thoughts-something appealing the whole mankind.
The moment a child takes birth, his struggle with his existence starts. He takes years to figure out, ‘Why is he here?’, ‘What makes him sense the things around?’, ‘How does he feel peace sometimes and restlessness the other time?’
He realizes that his existence is a parallel yet connected identity between his body and his soul. This seems to be the ultimate answer to his quest.
Ironically, this is the beginning-the beginning of the struggle-the struggle between the mind and the heart, the right and the wrong, the real and the virtual, the visible and the abstract and so on.
The truth is yet undiscovered and he finds himself all lost in the labyrinth of life.

Does he create this labyrinth for himself or was he just “thrown into being”?
Here, Rakesh wants you to think about this strange adventurous journey, which started with a struggle with the existence, suffocating him throughout with unveiled mysteries and ending up in a struggle for the existence. His paintings depicting the same would surely work as the stimuli to your thoughts.

SARAH
Freelance Journalist
M.A. (Eng), Fergusson College, Pune