Carried by Feelings

What does it feel like to be an animal?

I have always wondered what animals truly experience within themselves. As humans, we can only know the world through our own minds structured, analytical, and often tangled in thought. We can observe animals, care for them, even love them, but we can never fully enter their quiet consciousness.

This painting explores that curiosity.

The linear background represents the steady passage of time simple, continuous, and uninterrupted. It reflects a way of existing that moves forward without becoming trapped in memory or consumed by anticipation. While humans often carry the weight of endless thinking, animals seem to inhabit the present with remarkable ease.

The pink ribbon is a current of experience. It is not a path guided by thought, but one carried by feeling.

The animal in this painting is living that moment completely. It is fully immersed in its emotion not analysing it, not resisting it, simply experiencing it in its entirety. In that state, emotion is not something to escape or explain; it is something to inhabit.

Perhaps this is what makes animals so extraordinary. They do not overthink life. They surrender to each moment exactly as it arrives.

This painting is an invitation to imagine that way of being: where time quietly passes, the mind is still, emotion is whole, and life is experienced exactly as it unfolds.

It is not about thinking life.
It is about living it.

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I am originally from India and completed my five-year Bachelor of Architecture in Chandigarh. During this time, I began exploring my artistic voice by creating paintings for interior design projects, collaborating with designers, and painting murals for cafés. In 2019, I moved to Australia to pursue a Master’s degree in Architecture. Alongside my studies, I worked as a part-time painting instructor, continuing to develop my artistic practice.

Over the years, through countless canvases and experimentation with different techniques, my work gradually evolved toward a deeper exploration of animals and their way of being. I became fascinated by the quiet wisdom animals embody and the way they exist fully in the present moment, untouched by the complexity of human thought.

Through my paintings, I invite viewers to experience the simplicity and immediacy of life through the presence of animals. Their awareness appears direct and undivided, offering a reflection on mindfulness and the possibility of living more fully in the present.

Recently, my practice has expanded into abstract painting as a way to explore the emotional world of animals. I have long been curious about what animals truly feel. As humans, we can only perceive life through our own structured and analytical minds, often layered with memory and anticipation. The quiet inner experience of an animal remains beyond our direct understanding.

These abstract works attempt to approach that mystery. Linear backgrounds represent the passage of time steady, calm, and continuous suggesting a life that moves forward without becoming entangled in thought. Within this flow, a single emotion emerges. Pure and immediate, it transforms the moment into a deeper experiential state.

The paintings capture this intersection of time, presence, and feeling where awareness is not analytical but lived. They are reflections on existence experienced directly rather than interpreted through thought.