Harnessing the Power of Sound for Art and Wellbeing
Sanjoy Kumar Das was born in India, Meghalaya and he presently has a studio in Surrey, BC Canada. Sanjoy is a Professional Artist and an Intern Architect specializing in custom residences. He works in various mediums-oil, watercolor, pen & ink, airbrush.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and is a Certified Instructor for Design. Sanjoy has had a solo Art show in Tsawwassen Art Centre, and participated in group exhibitions at the Surrey Art Gallery and Port Moody Art Centre. He frequently holds art workshops.
He had absolutely no idea that when he boarded a train to Mumbai to pursue Architecture, he was actually taking the first steps into a direction of healing and self-awareness.
His area of study and practice of architecture and art were the mediums that propelled him towards healing and the exploration of the nature of the self, using sound as the principal behind his work.
Sanjoy’s work is intuitive in nature and done spontaneously. He sees Sound as everything and he considers his art as frozen sound. He uses the 5 senses – Sight , hearing, touch , smell and taste in the making of his artwork. Sanjoy also does landscapes, figurative, surrealism, abstract paintings and graphic novel art. Creating art makes Sanjoy alert and present, enabling him to live in the moment. His objective is to bring this heightened sense of awareness into his art and everyday life and share this experience with the onlooker. Once he has an idea, he tries to find the best possible way to express it in form through various media such as drawing, painting, or sculpture, and sometimes even combination of all three.
This exhibition is a culmination of study, practice and meditation on the effect of sound, colour and prayer on the human body. He has made an attempt to express his experience through his art and writing.
Artist Statement
The concept for the art exhibition is inspired from the Hindu tradition of Yoga. While yoga is often thought of as a means to help connect with our true nature, it can also be a way of helping us tap our creative selves. Meditation and yoga grant us access to our inner psyche that inspire […]
#1 Harnessing the Power of Colours for Healing & Well Being
Description: Colors have been used for healing and therapeutic purposes by our ancestors. It was practiced in the past and continues to be relevant to this day. Proper use of colours would help create particular moods and atmosphere. Have you wondered why in churches particular colored stained glass are used? Do monks wearing specific colours […]
#2 I Am
Description: This painting was inspired by a book named “I am That “by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj where I expressed my contemplation on Beingness, which I perceive as the feeling of aliveness within the body.It appears to me that this animating presence residing within me, extends beyond my body, just that I am not able to […]
#3 Arising of Consciousness
Description: This painting is to convey the meaning of the colours of the chakras. Becoming aware of the dynamic movement of this aliveness within the body with focus, breath and pray. Size: 34″ x 22″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $852
#4 Knowingness
Description: This painting is a byproduct of my contemplation on knowingness or consciousnessConsciousness appears to me as a background to everything- thoughts, emotions, the body and the aliveness within.Question-When I look within, I find sensations and perceptions, thoughts and feelings, desires and fears, memories and expectations. I am immersed in this cloud and see nothing […]
#5 Delerious
Description: This is the first painting I created in the memory of my dear departed cousin “Baba”. This marathon painting series was done as an online exhibition where I was uploading images every other day with supporters encouraging me. This went on without any breaks from 18th Sept 2020 to 2nd November 2020. My friend’s […]
#6 Arise
Description: Invocation: Divine Beloved within, I surrender to you, please allow me to abide by this aliveness within. Transform me into one who can fully love forgive and accept myself. So I may carry your light without any constraints. Guide me to create what need to be created for raising my level of consciousness and […]
#7 Ganpati
Description: This was done spontaneously, the lines just flowed into the paper.The lines just made sense to collaborate together to create the image of the Hindu lord who is also known as the remover of all obstacles. It seemed so appropriate for I had a mountain of paintings to complete as a tribute art!Ganesha, also […]
#8 Glimpses of Reality
Description: Aum (ॐ) is the vibration by which the Supreme Spirit brings all things into manifestation. It is the Holy Ghost of the Christian Trinity.Paramhansa Yogananda has explained that everything — all matter, all energy, all thoughts — exists in Aum.The Three Forces of CreationAll of manifestation is created, preserved in the created state for […]
#9 Golden Germ
Description: Hiranyagarbha (Sanskrit: हिरण्यगर्भः ; literally the ‘golden womb’ or ‘golden egg’, poetically translated as ‘universal womb’) is the source of the creation of universe or the manifested cosmos in Vedic philosophy, as well as an avatar of lord Vishnu in the text Bhagavata Purana.The aim is to realize through all form, the form less, […]
#10 Consciousness
Description: This vibrating aliveness within is the source of both life and consciousness. The mind which is all becoming, must recognize and penetrate its own being, not as being this or that, here or there, then or now, but just as timeless being. – Nisargadatta Maharaj Size: 34″ x 22″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper […]
#11 Returning to the Source
Description: Returning to that which sustains me, that which gives me grace, that aliveness within, that I amness. This is immediate, it does not take time. All is required is to bring oneself back to the present moment again and again from the onslaughts of thoughts. Size: 34″ x 22″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper […]
#12 Inner Space Exploration
Description: I have been hypnotized by the outside world for a very long time. It is time to go back within. Un-entangle all the thoughts, desires that bound me at times. Close my eyes, observe my breath, go within, sense, the aliveness within. Truly there is no other truth then what resides inside. For where […]
#13 Creation & Destruction
Description: Invocation: Divine Beloved within, I surrender to you, please allow me to abide by this aliveness within and transform me into one who can fully love forgive and accept myself, so I may carry your light without constraints. Guide me to create what need to be created for raising my level of awareness and […]
#14 Empty Holes
Description: It is the loss of all the people due to Covid -19 inspired me to do this piece. The loss of loved ones that leave holes in our lives that will never be filled.Remembering my loved ones today and sending them prayers, to my grandfather and grandmother my kid brother Dulu, my father- who […]
#15 Worlds Within Worlds
Description: Consciousness lost in its own manifestation of worlds within worlds within worlds within worlds……The basis of all Indian philosophy—particularly the teaching of those books called the Upanishads, which are really the distilled essence of Hindu thought—the basis is called the Self. And this word, in Sanskrit, is Ātman, and that means ‘Self’ in the […]
#16 I Sing the Body Electric
Description: It appears to me that this electricity within is none other than the aliveness, the animating presence within my body. This painting was Inspired by the poem “I Sing the Body Electric”. It is a poem by Walt Whitman from his 1855 collection Leaves of Grass. Whitman celebrates the glories of existence, explores the […]
#17 Light Seeker
Description: The seeker is he who is in search of himself.Give up all questions except one: ‘Who am I?’ After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The ‘I am’ is certain. The ‘I am this’ is not.Struggle to find out what you are in reality.To know what you are, […]
#18 Fire Flies
Description: A firefly reminds me of the eternal nature of our essence, it symbolizes inspiration, awakening, hope and direction. They are like fingers pointing towards light and truth urging us to listen to our hearts, that is to feel this aliveness within us. Size: 34″ x 22″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $471
#19 Continonuos Unfurling
Description: Sometimes I wonder, is there any end or beginning to this creation around us, this continuous unfurling of forms that appears to go on and on. How wonderfully this life eternal mesmerizes us into forgetfulness of who or what we are in reality. Size: 34″ x 22″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $396
#20 Magical Gateways
Description: In the Hindu tradition of Tantra art, chakras are vital energy centers whose main function is that they connect with the energies of the surroundings and transmit these energies to our bodies and vice versa. Each individual according to Tantra is a manifestation of that energy, and the objects around us are the outcome […]
#21 Glorious Light
Description: That vibrant joyous, light of beingness, that glorious light within that energizes all our movements, that which keeps us alive, that through which we know that it beats our heart, the pulse that throb, that moves the oceans, that grows the plants and animals, that loves music, that loves art, that loves peace, that […]
#22 Perpetual Manifestations
Description: Where do all these perpetual manifestations begin, and where do they end?What drives all this creation? Does it need a purpose? Size: 22″ x 34″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $396
#23 Interconnectedness
Description: We may not see it, but everything is connected with everything else. The animating presence is the same. Is it not the same essence within everyone that is sustaining us? That which brings to life to all our activities? Size: 34″ x 22″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $963
#24 Dancing Lights
Description: I thank the one within, that guides the brush and the paint that flows into the drawing!I pray that I may abide by the dancing lights within!I Pray that I am able to feel what I am required to paint to elevate myself! Size: 22″ x 34″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $396
#25 Vibrating Spheres
Description: The concept of spiritual vibrations is based on the idea that all matter in the universe is made up of energy that vibrates.Vibration or Universal Life Energy is simply a method to describe your overall state of wellbeing. Everything in the universe is made up of energy vibrating at different frequencies. Even solid objects […]
#26 Temporarily Unplugged
Description: This is my final bye to dearest Baba as of this lifetime. Temporarily you are unplugged so that you may rest and start your journey once again.Rest in peace. Size: 34″ x 22″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $693
#27 Savitur
Description: Sa-vi-tur Savita, from which Savitur is derived, is another name of the creator, this being the reason that the Gayatri Mantra from which this word is derived, is also knows as the Savitri Mantra. The implications of Savita is the creator status, the fountain, the source of all things. Size: 34″ x 22″ Material: […]
#28 Silent Observer
Description: Am I the silent observer of the thought and emotions ruminating within me?And not the thoughts and emotions themselves? Size: 34″ x 22″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $693
#29 Exeburance II
Description: I sense this exuberant life within, giving grace to me and all its creations.I may not perceive it, or comprehend it, but this same exuberance is also without.Once my focus moves from thoughts to this sense of aliveness within, the story telling in the head ends. But I feel I need to do it […]
#30 Continous Spirals
Description: I instinctively draw spirals, I do not know why, but as I surrender to the moment and let the paint brush lead the way. The life within is doing all this. I am just the medium through which this creation occurs and I am grateful for that. Size: 34″ x 22″ Material: Mixed Media […]
#31 Eye of the Cyclone
Description: Find the center of the cyclone, for it is always calm.When I am present and observe the thoughts, whirling around me the I enter the eye of the cyclone, where everything is calm, centered.I ask myself who or what observes these thoughts? Size: 22″ x 34″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $396
#32 Lost in Immigration
Description: I had been lost in immigration for a very long time due to non-acceptance of what is. Acceptance has opened up ways for me that seem like a miracle to me! Size: 22″ x 34″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $693
#33 Original Face
Description: Is the Aliveness within me the original face? My original form? Formless vibrating nothingness!A dance of energy manifesting as “me” for now! Size: 15″ x 11″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $285
#34 Going Within
Description: I go within, that is, I sense the aliveness within and abide by it, lose it, abide by it again, lose this sense, gain it back again…repeat. Come back to the present moment again and again, till it starts happening spontaneously. Size: 11″ x 15″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $285
#35 Phoenix
Description: I chose this painting for at this time of my life with Covid -19 disrupting my regular way of life I feel as a Phoenix rising from the ashes!From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring. J.R.R. Tolkien Size: 9″ x 18″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper […]
#36 Flying Through Fractel Forests
Description: As I fly through fractal forests, feeling like Alice in wonderland, I figured let’s see where all this leads to! Thoughts and more thoughts leading to other thoughts! Exhausted, but I remember my sadhana (daily practice) I sense breathing happening! I slowly but surely sense the aliveness within my body and abide by it.I […]
#37 Orchestra Within
Description: The vibrant aliveness within is like a musical symphony whenever I am grounded and present Size: 22″ x 34″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $528
#38 Perpetual Flowering
Description: Once we are present, mindful & connected to the aliveness within we gain access to the various energy centers/chakras within the body. Size: 34″ x 22″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $528
#39 One Manifesting into Many
Description: It is One energy manifesting into many myriad forms playing this grand cosmic drama. Size: 14″ x 20″ Material: Oil on Canvas Price: $528
#40 Callings of the Ancient Ones
Description: All knowledge is contained within our DNA, it’s a matter of transcending thought and dive deep within for the treasure awaits one who is courageous. Size: 18″ x 22″ Material: Mixed Media on Paper Price: $528
#41 Genesis
Description: New beginnings to create art from a state of presence where the mind is transcended. Size: 27″ x 22″ Material: Acrylic on Vellum Price: $963
#42 Dripping Nothingness
Description: Creating from, a place of presence that is absolute love… no one doing no-thing. Size: 27″ x 22″ Material: Acrylic on Vellum Price: $963
#43 Mindless Movements
Description: Brush in hand, focused in the aliveness within and mapping this energy. Size: 27″ x 22″ Material: Acrylic on Vellum Price: $963
#44 Divine Vibrations
Description: Everything in this universe is vibrating, my striving is to find frequencies enhancing our well being. Size: 34″ x 22″ Material: Acrylic on Vellum Price: $963
#45 A Flowering of Consciousness
Description: Possibilities in a human form… manifestation of the divine. Size: 11″ x 9″ Material: Mixed Media Price: $285
#46 Trinity
Description: Cosmic functions of creation, preservation, and destruction personified as a triad of deities. Size: 27″ x 22″ Material: Oil on Canvas Price: $963
#47 Sacred Frequencies
Description: The Sound Healing If you want to find secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency & vibration. – Nikola Tesla Size: 22″ x 18″ Material: Oil on Canvas Price: $852
#48 Thoughts & Meditation
Description: I am not my thoughts, but the alive, vibrating awareness that can perceive thoughts. Size: 27″ x 22″ Material: Acrylic on Vellum Price: $963
#49 Presence
Description: Presence is abiding by the aliveness within. Size: 27″ x 22″ Material: Oil on Canvas Price: $963
#50 Exeburance I
Description: Growing profusely in presence by coming back to the present moment again and again. Size: 27″ x 22″ Material: Oil on Canvas Price: $963
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