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Interview 2010

Interview by Shimeesha Arts – India.

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1. Can you go back to your earlier days, how did you discover your talent in art? Tell us about your early artistic influences, and experiences.

When I did my first drawing of my life, I was not aware that I would be happy painting for the rest of my life. I had always enjoyed it and got into it by accident. Long ago - my elder brother use to do a lot of drawings and I was trying to imitate him. He must be the first person who influenced me.

2. Why did you decide to pursue art as a career?

I didn't decide to pursue art as a career, it pursued me. Creativity itself is so divine and I felt that this is what I NEEDED.

3.Can you tell us about your studio practice? Do you follow a routine? Is your studio practice structured or do you work sporadically? And How do you support your studio?

I try to do many things. I react for many subjects. I don’t want to be a painter who has found a style and dissolve all his life painting it. I explored certain topics and my practice has been applied according to the subject. In my studio practice I never have a set plan to execute works. What I understand comes into my works. Some works are structured and some works happens once in a while.

It will be better if I say that, my studio supports me, more then I support it.

Q: Have you accepted any other profession? (eg: teaching) If yes, how did that affect or influence your art practice?

No.

4. How would you describe your works, in one word?

‘HOPE’

5. What are the most challenging aspects for you as an artist?

I believe that whatever I do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity and it is challenging.

6. Lets talk about your artistic practice, What are the preliminary steps that you take when thinking about a new piece of work? Do you keep a sketch journal? The importance of drawing in your practice...

I believe that certain images, forms or designs have its strength and softness, which I always experience while working.
The steps which I take is, first the physical involvement, second the emotional involvement and then the intellectual part.
I just let my creativity to be secondary, happiness and delight while doing anything is the key. Then whatever is created has some flavor of it.
I don’t keep sketch books, I Use it.
Drawing is not at all important for me, but some times the study (learning) is more important.

7. Do you consider yourself a private person as far as creating art is concerned? Or do you openly seek interaction with others about your work? In other words, is your studio door closed or open when you are working?

I think no one is private, and I don’t consider my self as a private person. Just like this – no birds thinks who are around and when to sing and when should not. But at some point while working I reach to some meaning which is entirely a private experience.
Yes I seek interaction with everything, not only a human in particular.

8. Why do you like painting?

Everyone else is doing video and installation these days... Utilizing digital photographs and other aspects of technology became a trend within the context of painting practice.

Painting is a love affair. It has nothing to do with intellect; it has nothing to do with reason. It is like falling in love with whatsoever it is. That is why I go with it.
Every one is doing video and installation these days, and most of it is in the wrong hands, but that always happens. Whenever something significant is discovered it always influences quickly. Cameras and equipments had not become commercially available until 1967. Today it is totally different. It’s good to continue the work and to continue working with technology side by side. It’s a chance to explore and experiment with new mediums, anything as a medium which fulfills our requirements to transform what we feel is fine to accept. But we shouldn’t get lost in it.

Q: Have you made the move toward different mediums within the context of your painting practice? If it happened is this a sudden change?

Yes, I have tried; but the experiment is only a part of my practice. It is not a sudden change it is just a change of medium.

9. What is the medium that you prefer the most?

Mind

10. Let us discuss the philosophy and motives behind your work. Do your work deal with very specific issues or concepts, political or historical. Based on what you 've read, you view yourself as an outsider who takes part in society rather than simply 'looking in', Can you go into further detail about this-- why if these ideas have become the focus of your work? Do correct me if I'm wrong in my interpretation.

My works are not having any agreements with social, political or historical issues. I am just enjoying the silent dialogues which are getting created by it self.

11. Is there a purpose to your art?

Happiness

12. What are your key responsibilities as painter?

Honesty

14. What kind of response do you expect from an uninformed viewer?

At least a smile

15.What are your favorite projects that you've completed in your career ? Do you have any personal projects that you're working on now?

There are nothing in particular which I call favorite, there is this saying… yesterday is past, tomorrow is mystery, and today is the gift. That’s why it is called ‘Present’. I can say that all projects which are being favorite for me when I was working at that particular time.

Now I am working with some number of series. Like finishing the last work for the series “Float”. Simultaneously doing key drawings for series “Gravity to Grace”, series “Smoke” and “Change” change is the series where I am using all useless materials which were use to be useful upon a time. And some works related to media, which I am doing using computer.

16. What are the best thing and the worst thing about being an artist?

Best thing, I know what I am up to. Worst thing, my parents don’t know what I am up to.

17.Any other thing you want to say that is not mentioned?

While working there is a gap between when you are working and not working also. That gap is the satisfaction which is worth well.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Interview 2012

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Interview By Ismini Karali - Hospitality Entrepreneur and Conceptual Designer. ___________________________________________________________________

Jagadish Dhyan Shreyas: Life is so beautiful, it is better to enjoy it rather than trying to understand it.

BPP: Identity: Who you are?And who you really are?

Jagadish Dhyan Shreyas: Male, 31, Visual Artist from India.

I am just an ordinary human being. I am enjoying whatsoever becomes available for me. I don’t have any purpose, except celebration of this beautiful gift, the life.

BPP: If you could say something important you've learned all these years of your life, to the other people and they were able to listen to you, what would you like to tell them?

Jagadish Dhyan Shreyas: We are alive, and our Life is so beautiful, it is better to enjoy it rather than trying to understand it.

BPP: What is your real dream, the one that keeps you awake at nights and if one day it will come true, you will feel your heart calm and peaceful?

Jagadish Dhyan Shreyas: First of all, the dreams are not real but they are just our unlived Life; I don’t believe that one day it will come true, and will feel calm and peaceful; rather, I could be calm and peaceful right now.

BPP: How is life for the people in your country today? What do you wish to happen to them and to the people of this planet at large?

Jagadish Dhyan Shreyas: I can see the life of people in my country, in three different factions today, in terms of understanding the very phenomena called ‘Reality’, in order to recognize our own existence. Some are thinking experimentally about reality with science. Some are with philosophy, thinking about reality tentatively, and some are with religion, not thinking about reality at all, but experiencing it. I wish each and everyone to know the reality of life through all the doors of perception. Philosophical, Religious and Scientific.

BPP: If you had the chance to be a child again, will you choose to do the same life you do?

Jagadish Dhyan Shreyas: Yes, I respect my childhood and I don’t want to change anything in it.

BPP: Which exactly was the moment you understood what you want to do in your life? How did you feel at this very moment?

Jagadish Dhyan Shreyas: I am waiting for that moment to come.

BPP: Something yours: Do you want to tell us something we didn't ask you until now?

Jagadish Dhyan Shreyas: No.

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