PERCEPTION

Title: Perception

Artist: Shubhankar Singha

Size: 24 x 30 Inches

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Price: INR 100,000

Description: The Icosahedron, a Platonic solid associated with water, represents fluidity, emotion, intuition, and adaptability — all qualities linked to perception and consciousness. Using it as the head of a human form suggests that thought and awareness are not rigid but fluid, ever-shifting, like water reflecting different realities.

The eye is placed within its central triangle, it implies the “seer” at the center of infinite geometric complexity — consciousness at the heart of structure. The eye universally symbolizes awareness, divine observation, and inner vision. Its placement within the inner triangle suggests layers of perception — the observer observing itself — a metaphysical “mirror within the mirror.”

The neck connects the head (thought) to the body (action) — symbolizing the channel or bridge between mind and matter, or awareness and expression. The red tie is a striking psychological symbol. Red symbolizes vitality, willpower, energy, passion, sometimes ego or the material world. The tie itself, often associated with corporate or social identity, grounds the higher geometric/spiritual symbolism in the human, worldly context.

The symbol of Infinity in the shape of Möbius strip, a paradoxical form reflects the endless cycle of existence — where beginning and end dissolve into one. It's a loop without the start or end, represents unity of opposites, infinite continuity, and perception that transcends duality. Positioned above the head, it becomes the halo of infinite awareness — perception that exists beyond the physical form of human intellect.

The artwork invites the viewer to question the boundaries between the observer and the observed, between form and formlessness. In its stillness, it reminds us that true vision lies not in the eyes, but in the consciousness that beholds.