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Shabbir Khambatti ART Habens draw energy from young minds. It gives me new ideas as part of my process of being an artist. I continue to teach children, while at the same time I am a student of their new ideas. feelings and responses to emerge. That for me brings a feeling of gratification of having made something that seems just right.
My experience with art has convinced me that creative expressions generate rays, energies, vibrations, forces and spirits that influence people who contemplate them. It has been what I call“ art medicine”, as art always has a healing impact on an individual or a group. Aesthetic experience has a powerful effect on us, but we tend to go through life without being fully aware of its place within our lives. We don’ t contemplate even though we might experience these beneficial qualities on a daily basis. My realization is that everything I do with art and creative expression flows from a common source of inspiration and renewal, even though I may not always be aware of it. Each of my paintings is intended to generate wellsprings of possibilities for reflections. These possibilities could be associative so that the viewer experiences unique relationships through the process of contemplation. All I desire is that he / she looks with sustained attention and let
According to me, Tribal art and Contemporary, senitiveness coexist in both within the medium used to create them. For Instance, I try to access my personal creative expressions through Tribal Warli art. Its soul is imagined as locked inside a self that does not realise its potential for expression. Expression emerges from the body, movement and the rhythmic engagement of the tribal people through their dances and routine activities of daily living. This rhythmic immersion in the expression is the primary source in the renewal of the Tribal Warli art form. The symbiosis of traditional and contemporary art is incorporated with different cultures that relfect the universal cycle of life, death and rebirth.
A woman has always played an important role in my lfe. My mother and my wife
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