M. Senathipathi
It should be evident to consider my work, as a continuation of the age old and ancient forms, evolving out of the Hindu Pantheon or iconography.
The gap has been bridged with perhaps only the subject matter as its variation. While the method of treatment has significantly changed, the occidental imagery has remained constant. The novelty in the treatment and the subject matter is contemporary. But what might to interesting is the change from the myth to the present that exists in the day to day life. While the metal was reduced to images in bronze and brass, as in stone sculptures or as reliefs, that remained to adorn the temple walls, pillars, floors, doorways and the ceiling, it continues to remain an excellent work of the past even today. In my work I have never ceased to be a mythologist, but the present has held in my thoughts, a certain concern for the human condition. To voice this mood I have depicted in my metal reliefs, as also my paintings, concepts which relate to insecurity in life.
In depicting these expressions, I also deal with beauty and the human behavior such as affection that makes life more meaningful today.