20.5x28.5 inches; Watercolour, pen and ink over graphite pencil on handmade paper (Click on image to enlarge)
A fantastic
creature has manifested; from the class of molluscs, scientifically named as
Gastropoda which we commonly call slugs and snails, blurring the lines between
reality and wishful thinking. Its body resembles a human tongue, without eyes
and without mouth and its shell is bulbous with psychedelic patterns. It senses
the surrounding through touch and taste; flicking, licking and slobbering its
way over contoured surfaces leaving a snail trail in its path. It feeds on
arousal and grows on providing pleasure. If annoyed it doesn’t hesitate to
sting. Sadly not available in pet stores! Not all creatures exist in reality.
They are not meant to either! They exist in the fertile world of our
imagination. They are manifested in our dreams. They spirit us away into the
realms of myths, folklores, stories and virtual reality! A space which distorts
reality to preserve the illusion which is reality. Imagination has no rules, no
logic and adheres to no scientific reasoning but without its fertile grounds even
science can’t grow.
