KARACHI – Aziz Hasan is a self-taught artist and has been painting since childhood. He had quite an exposure to international artwork at various museums and galleries around the world since his teens. “I believe in seeing the world purely from a very optimistic and positive aspect of what life has offered. Destiny takes its own course,” Hasan says. There were no pressures, whereas painting – the peaceful energy of the desire to create, which was absorbed by the mind – was so intoxicating that time flew by as though one was out of this world.
A flow of naturalness in forming colours around the thought in mind is a feast of visionary impressions. The concentration being on the canvas and the colour transforming your intensity of emotion to flow from your soul to create more space to accommodate new incoming energy comes from God-made and manmade things in life; and the textures formed seem like divine creations. “Every incident, impression, feeling or emotion of any kind, coincidences, events and omens – all leaves an impact on your mind and soul,” he says.
The consciousness is dominating or the unconscious mind is dealing with the world, implementing its decision through the conscious awareness and making it feel the decision is from the mind. “It is the freedom of expression, which is just like life and not really abstract. It is the conflict between what was supposed to be or is supposed to be like this or that,” he explains. We relate to each other keeping in mind a lot of limitations, or hardly any, depending upon the trust, belief and commonness of thoughts, which connect you to the other soul.
It is a force or power, which is a reflection of your unconscious and instinct. An abstract or reality painting always relays a message to the individual that every mind has its own perception of either relating to it or not. “Or some are just stuck in the middle of deciding what is being depicted is accordingly being read its entire honesty or tainted with judgmental attributes,” he adds. Photos courtesy VASL Art
