Kameshwaran is keenly invested in his immediate surroundings, thereby allowing the environments he inhabits to inform his work. He is especially drawn to the idea of home, his own family and uses materials that he salvages from urban debris that is somewhat connected to his own life. His skillful hands have the ability to bring meaning to the materials he works with whilst crafting ideas onto objects, with a subtle interplay between light and shadow. He navigates from the home/self, agrarian landscape, and the urban garden.
Stranded at home during the long and anxious lockdown period of the Covid pandemic, Kamesh found ways to sustain himself while stranded at home. Taking inspiration from the mundane, Kamesh observed lizards on the ceiling, chased fluttering moths, listened to bird songs, traced gnarled branches that blossom from the long winter and incorporated the aforementioned observations and activities into his work to sow seeds of hope.The artist looks at himself in his self-portraits and holds a mirror to us, asking fundamental questions that are existential. He creates sculptural installations to investigate the hierarchy and patriarchy of labour. And from the arid landscape of his village, he chases rain clouds, yearning to harvest his thoughts as an artist on the edge of desire. This short interlude as an artist-in-residence at 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery has given him the time to pause, think and look forward to the future.
