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As a practicing artist - it has been my constant quest to explore the human mark on time and vice versa. A certain attraction to find traces of psyche in flux or maybe an urge to transcend mortal boundaries through mediation between people and the cosmos. The concept of microcosm (body), mesocosm (earth) and macrocosm (cosmos) form the pivotal triad in my artistic expression.

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Tiger

Brishti

Temple Run

Beej

Under the same moon

Anahata

Big city Bright lights

Residue

The weight of light

Spanda

The other shore

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The encroachment of the city into forests makes the tiger’s return real - a reminder of our responsibility to all life and their habitats.

This series captures what is lost when sites of spiritual significance are subsumed by crony capitalism and religious nationalism. What remains is a deep void - an erasure of the landscape’s sacred history.

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Probably sacred

The monsoon writes in water and mist, slowing time and softening memory. Breath loosens, quiet heartaches dissolve, and what is washed away returns as the promise of beginning again.

From primal emptiness, form unfolds. Silence vibrates into rhythm. Creation is perpetual - a continual exchange between body and cosmos, where inner fire and stellar movement follow the same breath.

The enquiry explores the silent interval before sound, an immersive space associated with the heart and inner resonance. Time becomes fluid, material presence dissolves, invoking the unstruck, the unheard, and the eternal vibration beneath form.

Within the body, time moves in cycles - remembering, dissolving, returning. Its cycles hold memory, desire and the passage of time - A private universe unfolding beneath skin.

The city transforms the body. As individuals arrive from smaller, contained worlds, the metropolis becomes a space of exposure and release. Light moves across the skin as both presence and metaphor, revealing not what is seen, but what is felt: freedom rehearsed, self claimed, luminous and unapologetic.

This investigation invites a metaphysical encounter - the subtle sweetness that emerges from the residue of living. As we grow, the debris of struggle, memory and experience gathers within us, quietly shaping the human being we become.

An experimental collaboration creating a safe space for an inner world that resists language. Through image, gesture and interpretation, desire, fear and memory find their own forms of expression.

Works arise where inner and outer worlds dissolve. Fleeting impressions, silent forces, and lingering energies are distilled into thresholds, holding stillness and movement in a shared return to spirit.

A spiritual landscape where time loosens its hold. History, river, and ritual converge, allowing the living and the dead to occupy the same breath. Cosmological memory lingers in stone, water, and ash - a visible world in dialogue with the unseen.

Samarpit

The work listens to an inner luminosity that shapes and unshapes form. Seeing becomes alchemy, where light vibrates into transformation. Each image is offered to unseen energies moving through matter. Between light and darkness, vision turns inward toward source. Creation becomes devotion to the subtle fire of continual becoming.

Human hands fix the divine into familiar faces and forms. The artist moves beyond these inherited images, attuning to energy and vibration. Each work becomes a personal manifestation of the divine - a god born from vision and inner encounter.

Manikarnika

One of the holiest cremation grounds on the banks of the Ganga, where death is a gateway to moksha. This work imagines the landscape the soul traverses after passing over.

Conversations at the Cusp

An immersion in embodied spiritual pedagogy, capturing the dance of creation and destruction, and the transformative power of love and friendship in the face of the unknown.

Imagined flesh

A multidimensional construct encompassing how we perceive, think, feel, and act toward our bodies, influenced by social environment, peers, and media.

Where birth ends

A speculative inquiry into the body, time, space, celestial rhythms, and politics of religion - an ongoing photographic investigation since the year 2001.

A common wound

The divine becomes fragile when repeatedly exposed to the human world. Given faces, symbols and identities, the sacred is claimed, circulated and consumed, across faiths. these images bear the deliberate wounds of belief, power and appropriation.The sacred is damaged not by neglect, but by overexposure and misuse.

Shifting landscapes

An exploration of landscapes shaped by human and military intervention, and the impact of climate change on these fragile terrains. Shot at the highest battlefield of leh and Ladakh

Unwoven - Threads of silence

This work emerged through repeated returns to the last remaining jute mills of Bengal Its point of departure is not the image, but the sound of the loom - a rhythm that organizes space, labour, and time. The photographs do not seek to preserve a disappearing industry; but attend instead to its lingering frequencies. Between machine and silence, repetition and erasure, the mills become sites where memory is held not as record, but as vibration

In-between

Caves as liminal spaces - wombs of spiritual growth and thresholds of transcendence. Landscape and human anatomy mirror one another, creating spaces of contemplation.

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all artworks are original © abhishek dasgupta

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