Indigo and Charcoal at Kathiwada House Mumbai
Sayali is an experimental, visual artist from India. Her art persona, Indigo and Charcoal, is a meditative reflection on art expressed through diverse media, ranging from acrylic paints to upcycled fabrics. Sayali finds her canvas in the quotidian - on textiles, brown papers, plastic sheets, handmade paper, and so on. The visual vocabulary of Indigo and Charcoal is simple yet profound. Her academic background in surface textiles along with her in depth study/exploration of art meditation influenced her artistic diction. The Indigo and Charcoal artworks range from geometric patterns to intuitive brushstrokes. Her voice draws inspiration from Abstract Expressionism, but also transcends the grammar of a specific school of art by relying on the spontaneity of emotions. There is an obvious celebration of nature and ecology, the Indian tropical landscape, and the cosmic world so inherent to Indic philosophy. In creating each artwork, she is governed by the mood of the hour and lets her intuition guide her towards capturing the essence of a particular emotion.
The spiritual rendering of Indigo and Charcoal, therefore, stretches beyond the philosophy-led consciousness of the artist. Sayali’s work expands while it contains and reaches artistic climax through minimal expression. Concept is rooted not only in geometry-led shapes and patterns - which present a world of cosmic union, synergy, the elementary logic witnessed in all of nature’s creations. The smell and sight of such a vision are rendered in abstraction that elevates her rooted consciousness to fantastical flights. The language derived from duality far transcends it, creating a space of balance, harmony, and union on her canvas. Merged, her art becomes a therapeutic space of pause and reflection.
In working with the materials available to her, and drawn from the surroundings she inhabits, Sayali creates a world of reflection and meditative trance that upholds a world of creative and spiritual harmony. Which is able to convey the power of primordial shapes and symbols. The ‘narrative world’ of Indigo and Charcoal possess its own unique language governed by fluid conceptualisations and interpretations that privilege the inner world and inward gaze through gestural brushstrokes. And in doing so, is able to frame the formless and the fluid.
