- by Namita KulkarniArtist Statement on Portraits
My fascination with portraits goes back a long way. From the time I discovered the good old pencil, I’ve loved drawing faces. From family members to teachers to fictional characters and acquaintances real and imagined, I enjoyed rendering their likenesses on whatever surface I chanced upon.
What makes portraiture so interesting to me is my hunch that there is a bit of each of us in each of us, that perhaps fundamentally human beings are all the same, while countless permutations, combinations, twists and turns lead us to our unique encounters with the ‘moment’ which we retrospectively term as our individual experience. It is precisely that ‘moment’ in the individual – rather than the individual herself - that I aim to recreate and preserve a visual memory of, in the hope that it might engage a viewer into reliving that moment, even if only vicariously.
My personal gratification from a finished portrait comes from sensing a quaintly ‘personal’ resonance with it, regardless of whether the portrait is of someone I know or that of a perfect stranger.
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My fascination with portraits goes back a long way. From the time I discovered the good old pencil, I’ve loved drawing faces. From family members to teachers to fictional characters and acquaintances real and imagined, I enjoyed rendering their likenesses on whatever surface I chanced upon.
What makes portraiture so interesting to me is my hunch that there is a bit of each of us in each of us, that perhaps fundamentally human beings are all the same, while countless permutations, combinations, twists and turns lead us to our unique encounters with the ‘moment’ which we retrospectively term as our individual experience. It is precisely that ‘moment’ in the individual – rather than the individual herself - that I aim to recreate and preserve a visual memory of, in the hope that it might engage a viewer into reliving that moment, even if only vicariously.
My personal gratification from a finished portrait comes from sensing a quaintly ‘personal’ resonance with it, regardless of whether the portrait is of someone I know or that of a perfect stranger.
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