An exhibition of abstract images of urban landscapes entitled “Bands of Reflections” by Indian artist VINITA KARIM who resides in Metro Manila for the past five years, promises a respite from the gaiety of local colors and the trenches of social realism of decay and squalor.

Her long strips of dark maroon and cobalt blue colors floating on caramel ponds are an invitation to the eyes to elongate their scales beyond the limits of the canvas or the breadth of the painting. The illusion of continuity of the lines places the viewer on a virtual spot of the earth to breathe in the emotions and thoughts laid down by the painter. One is brought into a threshold of a journey or a trek into the moods and statements of the finite worlds of society inside the clutch of the Great Spirit who did the creation.

Having gone to many places all her life—born in Burma, schooled in Germany, Sudan, Kuwait, Pakistan and Sweden with her Indian diplomat father, and lived in temporary addresses with her engineer husband and two kids in Switzerland, Germany, India, Bangladesh, Egypt and the Philippines—Vinita (Whose name in Hindi means “something you ask for from God”) moves her brush and colors the changing sites of the cities where her feet and pressed their marks.  Continued...