Soumya Netrabile’s paintings are documents of her deep and evolving rela-tionship to the natural world. Her compositions are built up from layers of paint that are directly related to the layers of her own memory, retrieved and shaped by the painting process. Her paintings have a being-like energy and are as much about us in the world as the world itself. They are visual records of what Heidegger calls the Dasein.

 By balancing discordant colors and textures, Worcester harnesses dissonance and creates paintings that challenge the limitations of the human eye. His compositions reference the body and technology in an attempt to crystallize the inherent struggle between the two. The work transforms according to the proximity and position of the viewer, producing an experience specific to the lens of their body. Like estuaries feeding into a body of water, the paintings intimate divergent meanings through a network of connections that link discrete elements into a cohesive whole.

 In my paintings I honor the landscape as both itself and a metaphor. Moun-tains become places of ascension, inwardness, and grace. Historically, in both spirituality and mythology, mountain imagery is seen as dark terrain, feral, deserted, holy, and stripped of self. Untamed and wild landscape, in all its apathy, elicits a primal pull to enter it, to be joined with it, and to know it intimately. Seeking the solace of empty places, I create intensely personal portraits of quiet, meditative spaces that encourage contemplation and investigation of self, sublimity, and the divine.

 In my studio practice, I engage in mystical contemplation; each artwork is a gateway to unseen realms and unexpected encounters. Painting transcends regular perception, offering a path toward understanding that goes beyond the intellect. I paint in silence, attuned to the whispers in my heart and the fleeting visions in my mind’s eye. Inspiration is unpredictable and often perplexing. Every brushstroke and form is an embrace of uncertainty. I view the artistic experience as mystical, visceral, and immediate.