In celebration of Ontario Culture Days Doors Open on
September 27, 2014
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| Artist & Poet Meena Chopra |
Last Saturday, I visited the Sampradaya Dance Creations in Mississauga to see Meena
Chopra’s exhibition The Radiance of Culture Days – Art & Poetry Show by
Meena Chopra.
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| Painting from the series |
Meena exhibited her recent works – a series of nudes that are
at once languid and taut, depicting female energy.
For Meena, this series of figurative paintings is a return to roots. Along with the paintings, she
had also displayed some of her recent poems.
“My objective is to show the energy that emanates from women.
It’s raw, carnal, forceful, untameable, and even unfathomable. After doing
abstract work for some time, I was keen to return to figurative work,” Meena
says, explaining her motivation to do the series of nudes.
“Through my art I endeavour to search the co-existing
universal duality. I try to find the totality in the influx of paradoxes in an
effort to unlock the mysteries of life. I search the elusive reality of human
consciousness through the lines, splashes of colours and the impressions of
brush strokes on my canvasses and at times through pen and paper in the form
verses,” she adds.
Meena thanked Culture Days-Fête de la culture, Mississauga
Arts Council, Sampradaya Dance Creations, and the culture division of City of Mississauga
- Municipal Government for giving her the opportunity to showcase her work.
Here’s one of her poems:
"I penned down the sun shine,
You!
An instance
Inscriptions settled down in a hub
Structuring words with
Seething radiance,
Spread and Smoothened with the finger tips,
Surfaced,
A spectacular,
ever changing landscape,
Spelled a lifetime,
Blending a new language,
A simmering new journey
Co-travelling perpetuity."
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