Renaissance
Oil, acrylic, & mixed media on canvas
2021
Titled “Renaissance” after the classical art movement, this painting is symbolic of the fluidity of culture. There’s an ambiguity surrounding your sense of identity when you’re caught between your Eastern roots and your Western upbringing. Like the ‘renaissance man’ known for possessing many talents and areas of expertise, no two individuals have the exact same relationship with their culture and how each person navigates this connection is vast, with everyone having many unique ways of expressing how their heritage has influenced them.
Renaissance represents the diversity of our people both literally, with the depiction of several South Asian subcultures and ethnic groups in a single composition, as well as figuratively with the unity of all our unique life experiences.