Abstraction is an unreal and intangible idea. It detached and extracted from the object, reshaped and recreated. The following essay and illustrations capture an architect’s attempt to dissociate him from the objectivity of function, building, creation and other compartmentalised aspects of architectural practice. The first feature of a 3-part series looks at the influence of his childhood, education, practice and their manifestation into abstract ideas. It takes away the implied meaning attributed to the everyday and adds layers of fantasy, inspiration and unravels the working of an artist’s mind and being.
Gautam Buddha achieved his enlightened state when he renounced materiality, his kingdom (profession), family and earthly attachments. He rejected the identities that confirmed him into compartments of a king, son, and husband; of his skills and abilities; of sciences and arts and boxed classifications and qualities that defined humans. Or, if put another way, he rejected the rationales that mortals identify and define for humans and tried to achieve oneness in something external, something more and beyond.
This story is from the June 2019 edition of Indian Architect & Builder.
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