Om Soorya’s landscapes materialise as expansive, immersive and enchanting realms. From a distance, they register as coherent, monumental structures; up close, they fragment into intricate topographical and architectural details, transforming the act of viewing into a performative experience, as the eye moves continuously across the surface without settling into a static point of rest.
In Place No Trace / Trace No Place: The Luminous Twilight, colour fields are carefully calibrated to produce a restrained visual intensity and a sense of spatial stillness, while simultaneously conveying the passage of time. From within these fields, illuminated cities, manicured boulevards and rhizomatic networks are mapped against misty horizons and fragmented terrains, entangled with dense, vibrant vegetation, glowing forest clearings, and symbolic mandala formations. These recurring archetypal motifs blur into one another, creating a deliberate ambiguity that coalesces into patterned, floating, island-like formations suspended within a cosmic sea. The landscapes do not depict specific locations; instead, “place” becomes provisional and uninhabited, unable to fully retain its material past.
