Artist Statement
The imperfect and the extraordinary; commonplace and what is glorious; street and runway; candid and manufactured; in bloom and withered; flowers and people; aesthetically pleasing and what is nauseating; vainglorious and the sublime, celebrities and the unsung; rage and the sensuous; abstract and the realism; ennui and the achievements; political and the personal-is-political; extremes and the in-betweens. I shoot my experience - intimate and alienated.
- Saswat Pattanayak
(Astoria, New York)
