Exuberance (9 Nights)

My 30 day mint challenge has merged with the annual '9 Nights' community art mint we have been conducting over the last 3 years to celebrate the India festival of 'Navratri', which translates to 'Nine Nights'.

Each day has a unique colour and theme.

9 Nights Day 4:
Theme: Exuberance
Colour: Orange

The most common useage of
exuberance I've come across in a sentence is "the exuberance of youth"... So here I explore exuberance as an energy.. a vitality that emanates from the core of a youthful being and infects everyone it comes in contact with.

Day 28 of my 30 Day Daily Mint Challenge.

Series: Free Expression

Express yourself. It is therapeutic.

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Free Expression is a series of abstract paintings (occasionally layered with poetry) titled Free Expression. The series aims to bring out the inner child in anyone interacting with the art during its creation or after.
Embedded in each work are a few common elements from the artist's culture:
The colours palette for each piece is inspired by the vibrant colours from the traditional handicraft of phulkari, which is a practice of hand woven tapestries worn by women from the state of Punjab in India.
The emotions/thoughts expressed in each work are summed up in an inscription written in Gurmukhi (Punjabi) script and also in binary code, as a tribute to the digital nature of these works.
And as a play on the idea that the algorithm/AI cannot read emotion or truly understand art (so to read the emotion underlying each piece in binary may help).
And lastly, the 'Free Expression' motif, which shows expression locked up in a box...
Are we truly free to express ourselves? Do we speak and create from an authentic place?
Do we have room for our inner child to play?
Does our society, our culture, our politics, our training and even our conscious mind allow us to express freely?