Visual Artist of Distant Ether & Mycelium Gallery of Oklahoma City
r.i.pixelz
Arman Sikder
(r.i.pixelz · Exmaxhina)
I create to chase and convey a feeling. One that often feels just beyond language. My work is driven by an emotional undercurrent of sadness, mystery, and wonder, balanced by a quiet sense of evolution. Each piece begins with an internal atmosphere I am trying to understand and translate into form.
Through intricate ink compositions and increasingly through oil painting, I construct immersive realms filled with hidden creatures, surreal architectures, and cosmic motifs. These worlds are not fixed narratives but spaces of discovery. I invite the viewer to move slowly, to search, to uncover details as if mapping unfamiliar terrain. The act of looking becomes part of the work itself.
My recent paintings explore the tension between connection and disconnection. The fragile space between intimacy and isolation, unity and fragmentation. The creatures and structures that emerge are less characters than emotional manifestations, reflections of shifting inner states and subtle transformations.
Studying classical oil techniques has allowed me to deepen the emotional resonance of my work. The luminosity and depth of the medium create atmospheric spaces where intricate linework can breathe, dissolve, and re-emerge. This merging of detailed structure with expansive surface mirrors the themes I explore: evolution, dissolution, and reformation.
Ultimately, my work exists in the space between what is known and what is felt. Worlds that seem remembered rather than invented, suspended between personal memory and something larger, collective, and undefined.
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