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Please contact me at venantius.pinto@gmail.com, NOT via mudra@inch. com. Flickr allows one one email id to be attached to an account, and it seems my gmail account is attached to another account, which I have never used--there was a time when things got a bit convoluted. Advanced Capitalism I presume!!!



I am in a constant search for possibilities in phenomena that pass across and within my senses. Through drawing and printmaking, I have been able to achieve the kind of marks that are organic and reveal underlying emotions of our thoughts and ideas. I enter spaces through my drawings and in doing so bring out a nature that otherwise I would not be privy to. Drawing to me is one of the most organic of process. Towards a fruitful marriage of my thoughts and their depiction through drawing and print, I have been constantly in a search that has ranged from the traditional to the digital. Drawing allows me to reflect on ideas that lend themselves to deep introspection. My works are reflections on ideas situated at the intersection of religion, sexuality, and social consciousness. “Layering” is a metaphor for encapsulating fragments and wholes that convey power, compassion, and the memory of time & culture. I use color as discrete units of energy in an attempt to portray an ineffable, archetypal numinosity. As an Indian artist laborer, of Goan parentage, my focus has been to incorporate the essential understanding of various cultures to create complex wholes as a means to learning. I have always thought of conveying the essence of Indian sensibility through the use of forms developed elsewhere—whether be it through drawing, painting or printmaking.

I live in New York City. Currently a 5th Dan in Shodo; studying five streams of Japanese calligraphy.

If you have comments on my work and wish to share them, do feel free to do so at venantius.pinto@gmail.com. I look forward to hearing from you. Venantiusaneum: venantiusjpinto.blogspot.com/

This site also contains some of my applied work, so bear with my reality. Needless to say but one has to eat too, as well as evolve, share, and yet contribute of ones learning. The child is as relevant as the curator, or the most poetic of art critics. If you relate to this, we are cool.

* Goa, a Portuguese colony until 1961.
Mumbai, India/New York, U.S.A.

My work may also be accessed through the Artists’ Sketcbook site at: www.gis.net/~scatt/sketchbook/links.html