KANISHK MEHTA
Updated 252 days ago
Horwitz gallery, Ahmedabad, India 2018
There is a divine quality in beauty that makes us pause, brings us out of our heads, and into the divinity of the experience of the present moment. There are various spaces through which humans connect to this feeling that we refer to as beauty. Even though conditioning can tend to guide our preferences in understanding and realizing beauty, I know this experience of oneness to be universal and also that this space or feeling breeds within it much more than what is understood by the word beauty... Some find its presence through form, some find it in the presence of others, some experience it through sounds and fragrances, some of us recognize it through serving others whereas some of us flow through this in the stillness within our meditations... My search in life has always gravitated towards this gentle power and the questions that it raises, questions that result in looking inward, a process that starts a silent dialogue which creates and informs the work. The questions are often..