“5 & 1” Exhibition Space: Featuring New Art Movement based on Witnessing Consciousness. I will showcase new art fortnightly here, five artworks which would be in a series either on Music, Art, Mythology, Poetry, Ecology, Spirituality, Folk, Cinema, Theatre, Philosophy with a headlining act which would different from the series showcased. Size, medium and other details will be provided, for anyone interested to purchase. For further details, you can contact at joyr.choudhury@gmail.com (unsolicited emails will not answered, please be patient as there are many requirements for the same artwork, and, at this point due to time constraints I will not be able to repeat one that is already booked or purchased.
Woman in Paris, 1930/A4 acid free paper/Mixed Media (Charcoal and wood pencil)/2024Picasso and Baobabs/A4 Paper/Mixed Media (Charcoal and pencils)/2024Of Birds, Matisse and Songs/A4 Paper/Mixed Media/2024Woman Reading/A4 paper/Mixed Media (Charcoal and pencils)/2024
Teapots, White Clouds and Andre Breton/A4 Acid Free Paper/Mixed Media/2024
Shiva and Mother Annapurna/A4 Paper/Charcoal and Colour Pencils/2024
The next exhibition will be exactly after 2 weeks. Enjoy the show!
– Joy Roy Choudhury, International Communication Consultant, PR & Media Outreach, Consciousness Researcher, Writer, Artist and Musician.
What is artistic resonance? When the energy bodies vibrate with the ultimate cosmic frequency, when poise is reached amidst chaos, but, the transcendence happens by respecting the mutual negation of order/disorder within a framework of beauty which which is implicit in the design of being-awareness or existence itself. – JRC
The Feminine Sensibility, JRC, 2023Chanel and Inflorescence, JRC, 2023The Lotus Collector, JRC, 2023 Swirling Beauty, JRC 2023 (Reading Through Rodin, Klee and others)Angels and Flowers, JRC 2023
When the night is luminous And the Jasmine flower devours the light of the bridal moon The lines written over the dusk light of rain Prays to the chariot and the charioteer of the sun That there will be no gun ….. And the sound of silence will bleat like lambs Folded in the misty tapestry of hills And I go seeking the mountain water That falls down the lap though many light years away And sinking beneath the ground where we live, touch and feel A flower’s dream in the honeycomb of cells That shelters the dove-like tree and pinewood birds In the arabesques of the Clear Light…..
Mata Kalratri, the 7th aspect of Devi Maha Gauri, is one of the fiercest in the pantheon of Navadurgas worshipped during Navratri. Historically she is the slayer of the two demonic forces Shumbha and Nishumbha, she rules over the crown chakra as mentioned in yogic texts, and, therefore, is the bestower of yogic siddhis and liberation.
Topology in Poetry
Since the intensity of work has increased a lot, I have not been able to do enough today, each work required immense concentration, attention to develop the ideas, I hope I will be able to keep pace with time in future. I have added few photographs I have taken today to celebrate the saptami. – JRC
We came forth as innumerable beings resonating with her energy
We crawl back into the womb
Where silence sleeps in the beauty of her being
A radiance in the void, her luminous steps
Who could write or express gratitude?
For love is One, across all planes of existence
Like child nourished by the seraphims
We have found the paradise in her Self.- JRC – on the 4th of Navratri, the aspect of Mother Parvati worshipped is Devi Kushmanda. As the name spells out, Kush meaning small, usma meaning energy and anda meaning the cosmic egg. To sum up, she is the one who created this universe like from a cosmic egg with her smile. The plasticity of the smile is the cause of the multitudes, she is ever worshipped for wellbeing and strength of all sentient beings, she nourishes them all, she is the creatrix of this creation.
The whole idea of celebrating Durga Puja 2023 which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Festival in Bengal, was to go back and forth in time, to recollect art from the aborigines, and, tribes of Australia, India, South East Asia, Tibet and South America, Scandinavia, and, merge them into a new template based on pure non-dual consciousness where cinema, poetry, art, photography and other forms of self expression including music and modern science can be put together as nodes in a network (cluster) which are forever connected like the structures of neurons in the brain – the microcosm to macrocosm within that structure where symbols are the carrier of our collective unconsciousness – the journey in the discovery of the SELF, not Soul, as described in the Upanishads – a quest from ignorance to knowledge – a process of creative evolution for humanity. On the 3rd day of Saradiya Navratri, Devi Chandraghanta is worshipped, one of the aspects Devi Parvati , with half-moon, signifier of blessings for peace, harvest and tranquility. These qualities, inherent in humanity as potential or possibility, needs to be invoked, and realised through her blessings connecting with planet earth in a meditative conscious way.
India-US integration India-France Integration
Joy Roy Choudhury, Artist Good artists walk across one or more tightropes, balancing the commercial versus the artistic, the representational versus the concept, perfection versus pragmatism, the challenging versus the desire for immediate satisfaction. Joy Roy Choudhury follows these traditions adding the challenges of music versus the visual arts, the balancing of differing cultural drivers, the modern world vers
Comments: Wim Borsbom, Researcher and former Teacher, Archeology, Linguistics, Phonetics, Understanding of Brahmi Script , Netherlands: “You should have exhibitions… Your art is of course unique, but more than that, it is ultimately expressive TO the core, AND expressive OF the core of what is conveyed by your drawings — evocative to the max without any words alluded to or needed. Where it is symbolic of seemingly hidden messages, meaning comes through immediately… meaning though, that even if one tries to put it in words, surpasses any language. Your portraiture is radically “true” to/of the person depicted, “raw” (in the best sense of the word), free from judgement, embellishment or idealization…I value your art highly.”
Comments: Jeff Ross, Director and Founder, UK Skills and former Founder of E-Assessment Question Conf London:
“Joy Roy Choudhury, Artist Good artists walk across one or more tightropes, balancing the commercial versus the artistic, the representational versus the concept, perfection versus pragmatism, the challenging versus the desire for immediate satisfaction. Joy Roy Choudhury follows these traditions adding the challenges of music versus the visual arts, the balancing of differing cultural drivers, the modern world versus the classical. How refreshing to find an Artist willing and able to take these dialectics on and resolve them. Influences abound from the visual arts and the musical world, but here in his work is a fascinating insight into how those contentions can be shown, discussed and elaborated upon. Here is confidence in handling the ideas. There is a sureness of touch that says much about his understanding of both the process and the outcome. Each work interests, excites and then satisfies the eye. A welcome discovery and addition to the pantheon of Artists.”
I’ve Made up my Mind: Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways Through the Gateless GateThe Bauls of the East & the West & France-India (Bengal) Series
“They are great artworks, it was nice talking to him about his thinking process, I am glad they are underway, wonderful.” – Msako Shine, famous Japanese Ink Brush Artist from Osaka
“Joy mingles the raw flair of rock and roll with the esthetic timbre of classical Indian art forms.” -Dirk Geysels, Belgium
“A poetical symphony of sacred symbols woven with the un- factoid fashion form illustrations .” – Dr. Madhu Khanna, Scholar of Indic Studies and Tantra, Author of several books and Art Historian, Director Tantra Foundation
2nd Exhibition: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. A series of paintings including WB Yeats Tattva Cards from Numberless Dreams to L’OREAl Illustrations in bricolage with CHRISTIAN DIOR, 1950s Paris Fashion with Rajasthan Symbolic Tantra Art and Zen Artworks of Birds and Flowers.
All artworks done by me (charcoal on paper with mixed media) For exhibition in Paris, London, Zurich
Pls contact joyr.choudhury@gmail.com
Tattva Cards, WB Yeats from His Number less Dreams, Visions circa 1898-1901 now present in National Library, Ireland Tantra Symbolic Art and Paris High Fashion Tantra Art and Paris Fashion Tantra Symbolic Art and Paris High Fashion Portugal 1948-55 by Charles Fenno JacobsGallacian Milkmaid , 1925 by Ruth Matilda Anderson Paris Fashion and Tantra Symbols: Unlimited Ways to Awareness 1.0 Cloche Hats, Dynevor Rhys, April 1928 Paris
With Smt Moonmoon Sen, Eminent Actress, Philanthropist, Humanitarian who inaugurated the program on National Handloom DayIndian SareeWith Yukiko Yuasa from Tokyo who was part of fashion showWith Smt Ruby Palchoudhuri, the chief architect of the revival of Shantipur Textiles The Fashion WalkThe Models who walked the ramp
The Bengal Renaissance and the Saree Gyanadanandini Devi Tagore’s sister-in-law on one of her travels to Bombay picked up the Parsi style of draping a saree, called the “Bombay Dastur” style. When she came back she made few alterations and developed a new fashion of distinctively wearing a saree termed as the Thakurbarisaree – an archetype that was passed on from household to household….she even ran an advertisement in a daily asking women to learn the style of wearing a saree, and, not surprisingly women turned up at her doorstep, and, the new fashion of wearing a saree emerged – not only in Bengal but across the whole of India, she also introduced blouses, chemise and jackets for women. The Bengal Renaissance, deeply connected with celebration of womanhood (bashan poro maa…..Kali Kirtan) thus emerged and here we are trying to focus on the continuity of that energy, the vibration in a more modern holistic way…..
With Aloke Kumar Singh, Chief Choreographer for the Fashion Show and the Models on their experience of wearing the saree
In Conversations with Actress Smt Moonmoon Sen on the Importance of protecting the weavers community
On National Handloom Day celebration at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, I caught up with my good friend Aloke Kumar Singh, Fashion Designer, Mentor, and someone who has been vocal about sustainable fashion and the revival of handlooms. Incredibly talented, and, simple person, as Aloke is, he choreographed the fashion show with upcoming models from Bengal and the expatriate community in Kolkata – a show that was the highlight of the evening to raise awareness on wearing sari that was once the pride of Bengal and India. What was celebrated is womanhood, and, sustainable fashion – the myriad designs which are part of a rich historical heritage etched in the narrative of time.
Jean Renoir Film The River Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso
Love for the Self Love for that Undying Awareness Is the reason for all doing and non-doing It’s how the senses draw you out into the darkness of the void And ignorance raptures like a seed full of syllables and colours The finches wings and the parody of memories You try to fly over the grey clouds Return at twilight
The Stages of Buddha’s life ending with Mahaparinirvana
And you have seen the movies: Grand Hotel, The River, Clockwork Orange and the rest You have learned horsing and shooting along the Colorado river near the Canyons You have slept under the moon holding its shape like the scythe over your head You read Tagore, Calvino, Erich Fromm and Paul Eluard You have seen the birth of cubism And how they played with dimensions of space You have seen death by the water You have picked the card of the Drowned Sailor You met Godard, Klimt , Dirac, and Bose You have read from the parables, you have succeeded in the great perfection of wisdom
Jane Birkin Mick Jagger meeting HH Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche in Bhutan
But you came back with an empty hand And you have nothing before you leave tomorrow And the tales are told again and again How the oak gives shelter, the rock the strength How the Nile flows, how Hermes was born And the Mediterranean birds : pintails, mallards, gadwalls and Eurasian teals that have learned to wait and fly Speak no words or else cry With rain and thunder your friend The flash of the lightning at first sight And those travelling in camelback horseback muleback at night looking at the constellations They have strange names The seven stars of Ursa Major are the seven sages: Kratu Pulaha Pulastya Atri Angiras Vashishtha Bhrigu They sing verses to the children at dawn They play the harp, the lyre, the esraj and the bowls They may play forever There is no end to this My beautiful friend When you wake up from the dream And step into this waking world Do you not forget the dream And start again? When all is forgotten and nothing remembered Not even the touch or sound, and taste, smell, and, images Love is there as always be This Is-ness And you are awareness alone In the cycles of time, words are only passed from ear to ear And you see with your mind’s eye And clothe them with your imagination Oh! I felt the warmth beneath my feet And I cannot remember your face anymore Nor names Or, anything….
Kimt’s painting The KissSatyendranath Bose Shiva and Parvati 10th century on granite rockDurga miniature art
Jean Renoir Film The River Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso
Love for the Self Love for that Undying Awareness Is the reason for all doing and non-doing It’s how the senses draw you out into the darkness of the void And ignorance raptures like a seed full of syllables and colours The finches wings and the parody of memories You try to fly over the grey clouds Return at twilight
The Stages of Buddha’s life ending with Mahaparinirvana
And you have seen the movies: Grand Hotel, The River, Clockwork Orange and the rest You have learned horsing and shooting along the Colorado river near the Canyons You have slept under the moon holding its shape like the scythe over your head You read Tagore, Calvino, Erich Fromm and Paul Eluard You have seen the birth of cubism And how they played with dimensions of space You have seen death by the water You have picked the card of the Drowned Sailor You met Godard, Klimt , Dirac, and Bose You have read from the parables, you have succeeded in the great perfection of wisdom
Jane Birkin Mick Jagger meeting HH Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche in Bhutan
But you came back with an empty hand And you have nothing before you leave tomorrow And the tales are told again and again How the oak gives shelter, the rock the strength How the Nile flows, how Hermes was born And the Mediterranean birds : pintails, mallards, gadwalls and Eurasian teals that have learned to wait and fly Speak no words or else cry With rain and thunder your friend The flash of the lightning at first sight And those travelling in camelback horseback muleback at night looking at the constellations They have strange names The seven stars of Ursa Major are the seven sages: Kratu Pulaha Pulastya Atri Angiras Vashishtha Bhrigu They sing verses to the children at dawn They play the harp, the lyre, the esraj and the bowls They may play forever There is no end to this My beautiful friend When you wake up from the dream And step into this waking world Do you not forget the dream And start again? When all is forgotten and nothing remembered Not even the touch or sound, and taste, smell, and, images Love is there as always be This Is-ness And you are awareness alone In the cycles of time, words are only passed from ear to ear And you see with your mind’s eye And clothe them with your imagination Oh! I felt the warmth beneath my feet And I cannot remember your face anymore Nor names Or, anything….
Kimt’s painting The KissSatyendranath Bose Shiva and Parvati 10th century on granite rockDurga miniature art
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