Nature always presents its bountiful best to give us some magical moments and experience. The entire experience is of a full bloom and new shoots. It becomes a miraculous episode when nature spreads to regenerate and everything is fresh and new. A cool evening air is laden with the faint smell of mango blossoms, shrill loud calls of birds singing piercing the tranquillity of the dusk without disturbing the dusky feeling. The sky, the moon, the leaves enliven with new life and vitality and the whole environment turns into a heady mix of yellow and green as the blossoms add colour, poetry and romance to life.
Jyoti Singh is a promising artist based in Noida. Her subject of art is to capture the dusky lively evening moments wherein peacocks enter the worldly stage as “Nartaks” (dancers) with all beauty, grace and prosperity. Jyoti says that she uses a peacock as a metaphor to present grace, dignity and power. The presence of this beautiful, divine bird represents pure consciousness, the divine masculine energy, and the silent witness to all creation. It is often associated with the soul or spirit. The graceful male element is eternal, unchanging, and passive force that breathes life into matter and is the source of all consciousness.
The peacock has been depicted in Indian art since the ancient times and is seen as a symbol of beauty, rebirth and wealth, as well as of sinful pride. Jyoti’s attempts have been to present this beautiful bird as an abstract essence of the Self, Spirit and Universal principal that is eternal and indestructible. This is the concept of the powerful Purusha (male) which works in tune with the Prakriti (female) energy in all forms and formless entities.
Jyoti’s visual composition presents the divine masculine energy as the unmanifested essence of life, existing beyond time and space. The moon, in her paintings is a powerful metaphor representing emotions, the mind, and creation. Jyoti’s visual composition contains a mystical and mysterious quest that touches and lingers around a human mind. Her work of art includes a range of cultural and spiritual essence of Bharatvarsh which is based on the powerful energy of Purusha and Prakriti.
Jyoti has a keen eye to the details that she serves on her canvas to give life to her paintings. The colours, rituals, emotions and poses of the birds create a meditative setting that draws the viewer into a state of contemplation, thus creating a world of mystical mood with a silvery mist enveloping the setting. Her painting pierces the veil between the mundane and the spiritual, the illusory and the real.
Jyoti’s work of art depicts the National bird in all its unbound glory and plays a huge role in her thought process. Her presentation of the royal attitude and emotions is a powerful symbol in her work giving a personal and deep descriptions of her visual opinion of the cosmic, nature and artistic qualities.
Authored by Vasanth Rao
Curator, For Naari Narayani 5 – Online Group Show, 2025
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