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Translation: OF SOULS AND RICE POTS. When I was young I was told not to forget to eat rice during meals. If I don�t eat rice I was told that at night my soul will leave my body and enter rice pots to eat and there is a high chance that it might get trapped inside. I have heard several versions of this story but it only points out to how important rice is. There are 3 rice pots in the painting. Two-and-a-half if you are strict about it.

I paint visual narratives. I try to create stories with themes that range from the blissful to the brooding. Typically, my compositions are laden with common and personal symbolism. My works seem to have disconnected elements but they are in fact linked in the way that I see them. To the audience, however, they are like puzzles; open to varied personal interpretations. I don’t like to confine myself in a box. Some days I paint social commentaries. Other days I just paint my personal observations of issues that pertain to almost anything under the sun - this can be political, social, environmental, religious, cultural, and even agricultural. I try to paint realities in, out, and of life. Early in my career as a painter, I was mostly...