Empty Spaces, Echoing Vibes AP006

Abhishek Pande

My practice emerges from lived experiences shaped by spiritual cities like Varanasi and Sarnath, where the pulse of history, ritual, and everyday life deeply influenced my sense of place and perception. I am interested in both visible and invisible forces—spiritual, ecological, and technological—that shape our environment and consciousness.
In my recent solo show Tandra, I explored shifting cityscapes, imagined futures, and personal geographies. The term Tandra—a Sanskrit word for the meditative state between sleep and wakefulness—echoes the threshold space my work often occupies. Using repetition and pattern, I create drawings, paintings, and sculptures that evoke the cyclical nature of time and consciousness. Concentric forms, hand-drawn lines, and abstracted landscapes become visual meditations—each line an attempt to hold presence, memory, and uncertainty.
My work operates as a kind of psychogeography, mapping not just the external world but my emotional and energetic responses to it. The environments I depict are often in transition: between sacred and urban, natural and altered, remembered and imagined. I am especially concerned with how modern intrusions—like electromagnetic fields, mobile signals, and rapid development—disturb once-harmonious spaces.
Beyond solo practice, I run Kalaprabha Studio and actively engage in community-based initiatives, including retreats and teaching modules focused on process, ecology, and collective dialogue. These experiences feed back into my work and keep it grounded in lived, shared experiences.
Whether through pen, clay, wire, or thread, I attempt to make the intangible tangible. My practice is a sustained inquiry into memory, energy, and transformation—constantly circling back to the central question: how do we shape the spaces around us, and how do they shape us in return?