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Erasing Borders: Passport to Contemporary Indian Art Feb-June 2008 |
Arvind Garg |
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Artistic Statement
Eucalyptus bark series
For me the urge to make a photograph is to recognize the mystery of the visual world surrounding me. The twenty-five years I have spent photographing have been devoted to refining my vision and perfecting the technique to translate it onto a photographic print. The universe is not constant, and light, the most essential element in photography, is ever-changing. This makes the act of seeing and making photographs a continuous challenge and a never-ending engagement. But for me to make a photograph, it is important that I feel the thrill of a personal "discovery" in the moment.
Over the years, my work has evolved in subject and in style, progressively becoming, I believe, "quieter", reaching inwards as much as responding to what is out there -- in a word "marrying" the two. The resulting simplicity in the images, I feel, has brought my work closer to my heart.
In these images I seek to find a balance between nature and formal composition. These photographs were taken in Southern California, near my parents’ home, where I visited frequently during the last years of my father's life. For a diversion I took walks daily in the afternoon and found myself traversing the same walking path winding through a growth of magnificent eucalyptus trees with their tall and slim trunks on which the peeling bark created patterns of unexpected beauty. I was fascinated by their changing shapes and colors depending on the season and time of the day as the ever-changing light worked its magic on them. I photographed and re-photographed them, never getting the same image as before. They became a canvas where I was trying to make a representation of nature while finding a composition that spoke of harmony and balance. |
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