Alone & Alive by Akshata Prabhu in Mumbai

Mixed Media on Canvas This painting depicts the interior plan of a one-room-kitchen flat. This work focuses the tendency of searching for meaning at unnecessary, random instances. Focusing prominently on the Pareidolic phenomenon, the home-alone figure seated on the couch is contemplating and fantasizing the inanimate objects and settings that they are alive and awake, watching her doings in return. She tries to personify them. The egg omelet represents the subconscious nostalgia, i.e., a desirable memory of an event happened in past stored in the mind subconsciously, which brings up itself at times. It signifies that the individual seated is daydreaming. The figure is my self-portrayal and the scene is comprised of all my daydreams/pareidolic perceptions about the objects surrounding me whenever I am alone at home. I seldom imagine them to be alive since childhood.