Prathap Modi

Being, Society, and the issues related to it, have always been my primary concerns. In my work, the subject of desire manifests itself and constantly reappears in various contexts. I don’t consider myself a preacher nor a teacher. As an artist, through my work, I try to show and tell to my contemporary what I personally think and feel. My work is not simply a critique, rather it evokes the need to revolutionize and bring about a change in thought and life of the spectators. My work reveals several human-social phenomena visualized through my observation, and a proposition toward the people as in “We will be together” which shows the importance of peace. The worthless greed, corruption, and excessive power are so uncontrollably overwhelming our nature that we should succumb to them, losing ourselves in them. But we shouldn’t forget the importance of the togetherness, and of the humanity which the former can bring us. Beyond the different sexes, castes, religions, countries or boundaries, people are simply human being. One was, and is, like the another, not immune, untouched, or unaffected, but enough strong to care itself and the another. There is the need for us to be together again, being strongly pure, not only on the photographs nor virtually, but for real, between each other, as we used to be in our ancestral time. ‘I am alone. But I am with nature’ question why people feel alone even though they may live surrounded by others. They examine how we feel and act while alone and the discovery that the natural environment can hold the key to understanding, healing and gaining empowerment from this state of being. ‘I am Listening’ Series proceed me to being with nature and found an unbreakable relation of all life around, listening to intuitions of how integrated and interdependent life is on our planet. ‘Silence. Space. Terrestrial’ series question the unknow, perception of life’s beauty, music and landscapes. Journey of Self beyond compulsiveness of immediate outside world. ‘Terrestrial Waterbodies’ as extension of the series imagine the perceive landscapes mainly Waterbodies float in space magnify our experience of Life as being (to be).