In modern times the real problem of space implies environmental issues. In developing countries the adjustment to modern ways is problematic and consequently of major concern in my work. I am reorganizing space, colour and form in my painting in search of a single harmony. This signifies the realization of an urban space in ecological harmony with humans and the environment, matter and consumers.

Apart from such contextual content of painting, I have given emphasis on the idea of combining text & number in my work which helps to communicate with the people around us. The use of multifarious objects from the consumer world like photographs, newspapers, digital prints etc. is not random but calculated, essential and precise. Multinational companies, their products and ads have made agreat impact on our consumer society and urban landscape. The increasing demand for products hassupported the concept and practice of globalization, which has brought the countries accross the world closer toshare ideas and business, which is also acting optimistically as a force to break down all political and religious boundaries.

We live in the most complex period of human history. In the past two hundred years we have made advances in science, industry, machines, democratic government and the status of women than an all previous centuries combined. At the very same time we have carried out the worst genocides, caused the most ecological destruction, and inflicted the most grinding and relentless poverty ever seen on this planet.

Each and every day our urban society is going through a breathless night. The pollution lavel has already crossed over an alarming threshold. Every day we are facing very acute pollution problems, as well as space scarcity. Big cities are not affordable to many. We are destroying the valuable space of this planet through unwanted as well as unplanned construction ( mostly visible in under developed countries). I am very concerned with these issues, and through my work I just want to reveal all these crucial problems to the viewers.

Before nineteenth century there were neither photographs nor films. Before twentieth century there were no radios or television or computers. Even time was different when "horse power" was just that. Since no one moved all that rapidly from one place to another, there was no need for standard time. Each town set its clock by the sun and labor followed the rhythms of the days & seasons. To see how far away we are from that world, just turn on the television or log on the computer. Today video jumps from image seem normal. We are familier with the technique, and the rapid changes match our own channel hopping, endlessly fragmented lives. But that style of our art and our enjoyment of it are quite recent developments and both are the gift of avant-garde. All these actually motivated me to work in different media like photography, video and many others.

Rathin KANJI