GERMINATION
80.5 by 80.5 cm.; 31 ¾ by 31 ¾ in.
Signed, inscribed with title and dated 1998 on reverse Acrylic on canvas Quotes of Raza – “Nature as ‘Prakriti’, the supreme generating force, the embryonic energy contained in the seed, the male-female polarity, the ever present phenomenons in Nature – germination, gestation and birth – transformed my concept of ‘nature-seen’ to ‘nature-imaginedâ€. “Though I’ve been traditional in my life as well as in my artistic expression, I am open to the changes of our times. Like most Indians, I am part ancient and part very modern. We are great assimilators of inputs and ideas, not to speak of foreign invasions and cultures. If I had in any way felt that my particular vision, or that the geometry, colour, form, tone and space values that I have built up over 50 years of intensive work, were in any way being compromised by the computer, I would have rejected the experience outright. On the contrary it helped crystallize my conceptions, and opened up new dimensions of expressiveness that would not have been possible ordinarily.â€