Mountain-scape

During his residency at Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation (LAMO), the artist extended his ongoing exploration of material as content, experimenting with recycled materials such as egg trays, cardboard, and paper mâché mixed with local clay. Rather than treating material as a passive surface, he engages with its texture, repetition, and transformative potential, allowing it to generate layered visual and conceptual meanings.

Central to this body of work are egg trays made from processed rags, whose dimpled and moulded surfaces evoke the undulating forms of Ladakh’s mountain ranges. Suspended between painting and object, these two-and-a-half-dimensional surfaces expand the possibilities of image-making beyond the traditional canvas. The repetitive grid, shaped through light and shadow, creates rhythm and visual movement, while also suggesting a metaphorical dialogue between the organic raw material and its industrial form.

Deeply informed by memories of his native landscape, the works reflect a sense of immersion in terrain and an enduring connection to Ladakh’s mountains and architecture. Through the recontextualisation of everyday materials, the artist transforms fragile, utilitarian objects into durable pictorial forms that bridge memory, landscape, and material experience, while also responding sensitively to the spatial context of display.