Inner Isolation
I wanted to express my mental state during the current pandemic through my work. Coincidentally, the day I painted this series, my partner was reading an essay by James Baldwin to me about the creative process of an artist, which talked about the state of aloneness that an artist must cultivate.
Through these paintings, I wanted to show that isolation is neither dark nor lonely. The reality I have accepted is that the pandemic has created a dark hole, but the color of your spirit can never fade when you are at your truest and most natural form.
Labdhi Shah is an artist based in Ahmedabad, India. Trained as an economist, clinical psychologist, and art therapist, she is a self-taught artist. She specializes in finger-painted artwork created without any reference or pre-sketch, distilling the purest expression of her emotion into her art.
Art seeks to convey the truth of the human experience in all of its complexity. Shah’s aim as an artist is to share the faith she has in the capacity of love and to also accept the uniqueness of every human being irrespective of race, color, gender, and culture.
She works with a variety of media including watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, and ink, and she enjoys the uniqueness of each medium.
Her passions include traveling and studying human complexity.