Dilshad Kanji
I am an emerging visual artist, with focus on bridging art, science and spirituality. My imagination moves around my understanding based on scientific research about human existence and its connection with the entire universe. Inspired by the in-depth cosmological inquiry provided by numerous Scientist, our ancestors, and Sufi sages, my current practice is dedicated to re-imagining the principles that once guided our ancestors towards an illumination of the intellect. Each intervention involves testing how various geometric forms can appear(worldly) and disappear(spiritually) in space - how the viewer must find a state of balance in order to witness the unity within an image.
Pineal Gland - The Third Eye - Listen to sound of waves within you. (Rumi)
Mixed media on canvas - 36x34 inches
The Caged - "Why do you stay in Prison, when the dooris wide open" (Rumi)
wool and wood sculpture
Our Melting Planet....
mixed media on wood panel - 32x32
Personal Window - Personal Window - “We seek outside the wonders we carry inside us”. (Rumi)
Oil on canvas - 18 × 24 inches
This is Love....
Hybrid Collage - Print on 20x26 inches
way back home - I came to this earth so i that i could find my way back to beloved (Rumi)
Oil on Paper - 20x26 inches
Still-life to stillness - "The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear" (Rumi)
Oil on wood panel - 28x26 inches
Becoming Galactic beings - “Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing & from nothing-everything" (Rumi)
Mixed media on paper - 28x26 inches
Spiritual Transformation - "If you desire grace, lose your selfish self till you can taste the sweet essence" Rumi
Mixed media on canvas- 28x26 inches
"and whoever turns away from my remembrance, indeed he will have a depressed life" (Quran 20:124)
Drawing on paper - 30x28 inches
Attitude of Gratitude - "Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there" Rumi.
mixed media drawing on paper - 26x24
This is Love - "When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth"
mixed media drawing on paper - 24x22 inches
The music of Reunion - "When the music of union begins to play, o destiny of million life times, come and learn its song" Rumi.
Oil on wood panel - 30x28 inches
"The treasure of unity is found by those who look within" Rumi
Pastel on paper - 30x28 inches
The Path- "There is a path from me to you that i am constantly looing for" Rumi.
Collage painting on board- 30x28 inches
Spark from the infinite...
Collage painting on board- 30x28 inches
Don't grieve...anything you lose comes around in another form Rumi
Collage painting on board- 30x28 inches
Mother...."we are born of love, that love is our mother" Rumi
Oil on wood - 16x12 inches
"be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop" Rumi
Collage drawing on board- 30x28 inches
Heart brain coherence
oil on wood
why not us?
Collage drawing on paper- 26x22 inches
Two worlds as one "I have put duality away, i have seen two worlds as one" Rumi
Collage drawing on paper- 30x28 inches
The Wings – "You were born with wings, why do you prefer to crawl through life?". (Rumi)
Collage Painting mounted on board 24*18inch