Escape By Anuradha Rajagopal

My work seeks to explore the way people perceive landscape and colour and the manner in which one influences the other. I started my exploration with photos of landscapes and moved on to themes where the landscape being photographed gets engulfed by smoke and colour, which draw the eye. My early experiments were around creating coloured clouds. I have recreated the ‘cloud’ through the use of smoke bombs. Unlike Smilde’s work, where the clouds are static, I have tried to create an impression of movement and action by capturing the swirl of the smoke. I then moved on to exploring landscapes through a combination of colour and cloud.