Practicing Portraits!

Past, present and Rupture.

This time, something dreamy or surreal I wanted to paint. No, I am not reading Dali’s books nowadays. But I am really influenced from my dreams i see while sleeping.

The idea is related to the years we pass on, measuring our growth and maturity, and the time we will be passing on.

The bottom part – the past as a tree, faces etched on them of the people we met and vanished. Its fixed and en-rooted much like the history of everyone and even if liked, we can never change that. Only mixed bag of emotions and memories remain.

The middle part – The present moment is very much like skin, bone and flesh, something we see and feel with all the elements of joys, pains, nervousness, melancholy or fear etc. We can amend this, kill it, overcome this, relive it or leave it as it is like our decisions of our lifestyles, gaining or sacrificing. Whatever we do, our present is always based on the feet of pasts, so if the root and branch of that past is fixed with some sorrow or joy, those branches begins to grow as the bones within ourselves, calling us the vertebrates of the past.  We are fixed to the same journey of that moment almost forever, like the necessities of the parents, education, place we were born. Even if we try to move, we can always feel the bone inside.

Upper part – Our Future ruptured and then melted into us, seconds by seconds, which we always perceive with hope and wellbeing. Its always in our head and represents as an idea, though never it can be seen and touched before handed. And that’s the fun part, to dream and to imagine. That’s the reason why we strive for colourful as it can be like the planets and stars and sometimes it can be as dark as universe. The moment we get to know the future, the head becomes frozen and clustered with those doubtful statistics of that predicted future. It can be cool or as hot as volcanoes but somewhat depends on the pains, joy, familiarisation we have in the present.

So in a way, our life is always fixed from bottom, mouldable and easily influenced in its torso and windy, fluid or visionary from its head. Always related among each other.

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Its a Studio Ghibli festival during my weekends and I have to devote 2 hours of my life watching the fun and magic created by them. And surely their style, concept and characterization has captured me a lot. The illusion of the dreamy characters like Totorro, city, dragons, landscapes in Spirited away or reclusive personalities like Porco Rosso, each and every other movie is so catchy and perfect that I wish that to be running forever and ever.The perfect sense of making anyone immersed even though someone isnt a fan of Anime, with his animated characters, love for beautiful landscapes and multi cultural stories. I just like them all.

Spirited away and Mononoke are the classics and has the mind boggling essence of storytelling, but there are some with the plain concept and story with a touchy art to just tell the whats the dream is all about. They are more of a demonstrations of the skills for the artists in the studio, keeping the stories at the backburner. Recently I have seen My Neighbour Totorro, and its very much inclined to children anime with simple story but distinctive characters. The plot is nothing new but fun to watch and somewhat nostalgic for me, for some parts when as a kid we use to imitate our elders, follow them, always on high energies, less afraid of new things and what not.Those things really came back.

This brings to me to illustrate something from the movie, I felt very close and a part that something changes the story with a short notice. The part of this I have chosen is dear to me as 4 year kid decides to do something for her ailing mother. Being an adult we know that she was a fool who has never learned to record the distance to the hospital without her sister or father being with her, but still goes on to show the courage to do something for the very first time. To try and make a change, even thats as small as gifting the corn to her mother, thinking that will make her healthy and quicken her return to home.

I am sure we all have done something wrong in our childhood to make ourselves feel adventurous, or for the sake of fun or in the act of desperation and ended up with what we had never expected in our near imaginations or expectations. But as shown in the movie, no matter where we are lost and disoriented, there is always a time, late or early, when someone somewhere has found us and rescued us. In some case, its kin, sometimes friends or it can be a stranger as strange as Totorro. I am sure there would be many after us who had shed the tears, worried, missed and prayed a lot for our safety and welfare. And that is this simple story, which isnt as simple as in the real life is.

I think its not merely a fairytale, for which I can believe the character like Totorro isnt a ghost or spirit but our hope to make us pray for the testing times. Not everytime and every thing happens merrily in the real life as many people run out of luck and blessings or may be dont the priviledges of that giant spirit. But whatever had been shown in the movie, my childhood was gifted back to me while watching this movie and all special thanks to Miyazaki and his team.

Kudos to Ghibli once again!

Watched Princess Mononoke! Infact Enjoyed that thoroughly! The Death of river spirit and Ironworks reminded me of Japanese Tsunamis and destruction of Nuclear Plant. Maybe the reality got inspired from fairytales, or the Ocean wanted something from that nuclear plant/humans/us. The war between the tribes go on… and peaceful nature suffers…..but in the end, life breathes on in whatsoever shape, colour and its intentions.  Miyazaki is the best in telling real stories from his dreams.

Its falling stars with 1!

Deceptive Hue….. a personal work for practice. I hope the lady wont change the pixels when you are away from the image. :)

Love to see those artists after the day work…. If I get to… I will buy this artbook.

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