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Well, I’ve looked at lots of photography over the years, but my influences are primarily painters. I’ve read the biographies of many kinds of artistic people. I also listen to a lot of music. Ideas come to me when I’m listening to music. I also believe in philosophy.
I think of the work as surrealism…but a better way to describe it would be super-realism.
Somewhere I read “When we finally have all the knowledge, we will realize that. We just don’t know all the answers yet.”
So that’s the reason I look on my work, not as supernaturalism but super-realism. In other words, I am taking reality and magnifying it in a poetic way to make a statement. As Picasso said: “Art is a lie that reveals the truth.” I didn’t like that statement when I first heard it because disagreed with the word “Lie.” What the artists are doing is exaggerating, but to such an extent that people know that you don’t mean it literally. You are not lying, but exaggerating the point so that they will understand. That’s why I see my work as super-reality. I’m using real skies, real trees and so on. I’m not making fantasy worlds like certain science fiction illustrators do.
That idealism carries over into my work. For example, I was asked to do a cigarette and campaign. Well, I used to smoke, but now I’ve quit. So I don’t think it’s right to encourage other people to smoke. I turned down tens of thousands of dollars because I would not feel right about using my art to promote cigarettes. What I’m saying is that if you have a talent, you should use it for the good and not the bad.
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Khursheed Alam
Karachi-Pakistan
info@khursheedalam.com
