Syed Mursaleen: A professional sketch artist from Handwara
Syed Mursaleen, from Kunnel-Handwara, is a professional artist and currently pursuing a Bachelors degree in Applied Art from the University of Kashmir
From the age of 8 years, he is trying to shape things as he saw them, not in the way they look. For Mursaleen it’s easy to paint the realistic mood of people who are sitting for meals but to visualise the hunger of people adds a flavour to my artwork.
While speaking to AUYK Blogs, he said "My latest artwork is titled as “Fair and Fear”. It is a painting in abstract form. The concept of painting is based on the real scenario.
That is:
Every fancy story of the modern cinematic world would normally end with someone choosing somebody over someone or somebody happy about their choices or else regretting them. But, isn’t cinema inspired by what’s happening in and around us?
We are driven by examples so here goes that; A middle-class government teacher choosing a fair lady over a dark-skinned one would be choosing somebody over someone. There are always outcomes of everything we choose or want or desire and sometimes we are so tired of choosing, wanting or desiring that we loosen our defence mechanisms and stay idle for something miraculous to happen to us.
We let others pick us up and feel special because they picked us, we get comfortable in their pouch-like we’ve been naked forever. They bring us closer towards them to give us the warmth we were craving for and then all of a
sudden we’re thrown away like we were a pebble picked up and stretched in a slingshot pouch to target the choice they made on behalf of us.
Checkout some of his work
