Artist Statement: The piano I have designed is meant to give you a sense of movement of the beautiful origami cranes that have been painted. The colors I chose were originally meant to have a synesthetic appeal to the senses, but I chose to recreate them and re-edit them to make the viewer feel like following the stripes of color all over the piano. Playful as it is, I like that it allows the viewer to go all around the piano and observe the entire thing and explore the forms and shapes that I have created on it. It is a message of hope and is also an attempt to reconcile my need for peace in this world and a positive message for everyone. Having fun while looking at the piano and playing it is perhaps the best thing that I could see happening to it.
Moksha Kumar is an artist who currently attends Pratt Institute and will be graduating in 2015 with a BFA in Painting. She is a finely talented and excellent student of the arts, devoting her life to exploring her creative prowess. Cultural diversity and a nomadic love for travel is imbibed through the artwork and process. This in turn allows for an abstract expression of memory, architecture, nature (natural forces), and narrative. Through oil, origami, and mixed media, her approaches to ideas are complex, vibrant and a reach into an unknown space. Even though she is new to the art scene, she is determined to create a world of her own. The goal is to allow the audience to escape if not for a while, but for a moment in time into the depths of her creation.
