S. H. Raza 
 

COLOUR
not just a pigment
but a vital painting element
in a newly acquired language
under contending powers of darkness and light. 

Tender greys and greens
distilled browns and reds
with blacks that sustain,
Constantly shifting equations.
Converging dualities, affinities
questions and answers.

LIFE
opening up
choice and denial
discipline and effort
unfolding inner space
to corresponding impulses of colour perception 

Memories, visions, impressions
embodied signs and symbols,
tribal images, auspicious hand prints, 
calligraphy, grilled screens, the churning wheel, 
mud walls, windows,
the coiled rope.
Extension of awareness
suspense.
The metal plate in gestation
receptive white space, a receptacle.

And an emerging concept
organic, condensed, radiant
is released as
ENERGY.

S. H. Raza
Paris, France.

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