DEFINED AND UNDEFINED: THE AMBIGUITOUS REALM OF SACHIN S JALTARE
“Art is the language of the soul, a way to communicate the unseen and the unknown”
Shiavax Chavda
Sachin S. Jaltare, an established artist based in Hyderabad, found the confines of realistic representation limiting, driven by a desire to break free from form and express himself more freely. This led him to search for a visual language that could convey his innermost desires—one that would allow him to represent subjects integral to his life, experiences, perceptions, and philosophical episteme. Through distinctive imagery, he sought to develop a unique artistic vocabulary, enabling him to forge a personal identity and redefine his mode of expression.
It was in the early years of the first decade of 21st century that he took to reading on spirituality and meditation and found the verbal medium enabling him to discover answers that he was in the quest of. The energy he discovered in meditation and the reading on spirituality opened space for him in the realization of an unknown force as ‘energy’ which he translated through the concept of Shiva-Shakti or Prakriti-Purusha, the eternal, infinite boundless space and energy. These dimensions crucially began to inform his artistic expression that was to radically change the way he would paint. “In Shiva and Shakti, I find the perfect meeting of the form and the formless” says Sachin, which inherently is the duality of life’s existence that he capitalized upon.
The powerful concept of energy, which offers different reading as body and energy, Purusha-Prakriti, Shiva-Shakti, all aspects and manifestations of a transient world in which time play an equally seminal role. That is to say, it is a dimension of life, which is always on the roll on the move and unstoppable while the ‘self’ or the soul, remains unchanged and eternal. If Sachin was reclaiming this philosophy as means of his artistic expressions, it necessitated a change in his articulation with vocabulary and visual language. Hence this required for him to break out of the limitations of firmly defined body structure; and navigate space and time to create the seen and the unseen. The aspect of time in a way therefore becomes an important element as one of constant change, in the understanding of Sachin’s quasi abstract figurative works.