Tarun Butta

My work initiates a longer inquiry in to moments where human identity destabilises in the presence of non human intelligence and decaying structures .My visual emphasis is on the absolving bounds of formal and conceptual paradigms. The visuality of the semiotics becomes an exchange of dialogue between me, the space, the method and the encounters that eventuate. As the monopolised agency of the artist disperses, I wish to peel away painstakingly, the layers of persona that refurbishes our collective unconscious, to unveil the shared instinctual patterns.The self is not a container, but a passage into the metaphysical.Entities (trees, ruins, fungi, architectures, presences) are no longer symbols but intelligences in integrated relations. They are not metaphors but interlocutors. These realisations lose their authenticity when over articulated. Once translated too cleanly into language, they collapse into doctrines or aesthetics. So in these visuals, the formal attributes revitalise and the process animates itself. It extends beyond the making, shaping and conceptualising. The life of the forms in the visuals, encounter a state of sustained metamorphosis through its viewership. I am drawn to that threshold where decay and renewal blur, where silence takes on volume. The image, instead of describing the world, begins to dream it back into being. In the act of spectation, the layers of paints, strokes and marks that weave dimension through translucency are the formal facets spirited in conveying this conception. In the seeking of synergistic intelligence, the expedient of navigation stretches further to spatiality and spectatorship.