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WELCOME TO SUREEL ART SEASON 8
Again, the focus of Sureel Art Season 8 remained focused on my inner search: Who am I? While watching my body, mind, and emotions, many new facts came to light and got translated into colourful wood mosaics, murals, and sculptures.
In this season, two new styles are also borm. I hope the artworks of Sureel Art Season 8, created with these new styles, will bring joy to you.
If you wish to purchase any artwork from this season, please feel free to contact me at +91 78376 11353 or Email me for more details.
Who am I? #92
Is it all a mind game? Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 24 x 25 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India At different times, different emotions, moods, and personalities arise in my mind. If I am calm and watchful, then they shy away and disappear; otherwise, they spread their effects in the form of joy, anger, excitement, sadness, fear, and so on, on my innocent body. Who is that entity that is able to watch all these emotions, moods, and personalities wandering i
Who am I? #91
Just a pop-up in the cosmos? Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 25 x 25 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India When I ponder the vast universe with billions of galaxies and an uncountable number of stars, my ego starts trembling. I feel smaller than a grain of sand on a vast beach. Am I just a tiny pop-up, or even just a flash in this vast cosmos, which will disappear soon? But the question remains: Who am I? I remember Anand Bakshi's beautiful lines: "Chand Suraj
Who am I? #90
The Missing Boatman Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 37 x 37 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India (Not Available) I feel like a boat stranded on an unknown shore, full of crazy thoughts, feelings, emotions, and moods. The boatman is missing, maybe he is hiding in the unknowable, mysterious world above. Who am I? A boat, waiting for the boatman? मैं कौन हूँ? #90 लापता नाविक वुड मोज़ेक/स्कल्पचर 37 x 37 इंच, 2023 सुरील कुमार मैं अपने आप को एक नाव की तरह महसूस करता
Who am I? #89
My Mind, The Great Filter. Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 36 x 27 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Vienna, Austria It seems, all amazing things like music, poetry, love, beauty, etc. are beyond my mind. As soon as they get filtered or explained by my mind, they immediately lose their magic. Everything becomes boring, prose, and mechanical. So, I can't ask my mind "Who am I?", because it will sure bend reality. I am, but who? Wer bin ich? #89 Mein Verstand, der große Filter. Hol
Who am I? #88
Pancha Mahabhuta (Five Great Elements) Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 18 x 27 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India (Not Available) According to Ayurveda and Hindu philosophy, all organisms in the cosmos are made up of the five great elements, earth, fire, water, air, and space. When an organism dies, all five elements come back into existence and again take on a unique shape. It is very difficult to tell if there are only waves or only oceans. In a tiny wave,
Who am I? #87
From Womb to Grave! Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 18 x 27 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Vienna, Austria Who am I? Just a seed? A seed with the hope of blooming? A seed on his beautiful journey, from womb to grave? Wer bin ich? #87 Vom Mutterleib bis zum Grab! Holzmosaik/ Skulptur, 45,7 x 68,6 cm, 2023 Sureel Kumar Wer bin ich? Nur ein Samenkorn? Ein Samenkorn mit der Hoffnung auf Blüte? Ein Samenkorn auf seiner schönen Reise, vom Mutterleib bis zum Grab? मैं कौन हूँ? #87 गर
Who am I? #86
My inner bull is getting ready for a quantum leap?! Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 29 x 27 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Vienna, Austria Who am I? Am I still like a seed, waiting for germination? Sometimes, I feel a very strong push from inside, as if a bull is getting ready to take a quantum leap. Is that bull my real self? Wer bin ich? #86 Mein innerer Stier bereitet sich auf einen Quantensprung vor?! Holzmosaik/ Skulptur, 73,6 x 68,6 cm, 2023 Sureel Kumar Wer bin ich? Bi
Who am I? #85
Duality Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 24 x 22 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Vienna, Austria Rarely, there are moments when I am able to enjoy my life as it is. But most of the time, my mind continuously goes on turning the beautiful and mysterious world around me into a duality: good-bad, beautiful-ugly, interesting-boring, happy-sad, right-wrong, and so on. It's an expert divider! Wer bin ich? #85 Dualität Holzmosaik/ Skulptur, 61 x 56 cm, 2023 Sureel Kumar Selten gibt es
Who am I? #84
A Seed, Waiting for the Revolution! Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 16 x 27 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Vienna, Austria I feel myself like a seed. A seed with a blueprint of all the evolutionary programmes of my life: my age, health, intelligence, nature, likes, dislikes, etc. In this evolution, everything is linked in a very complicated way. It has a past, present, and future. In a sense, everything has already happened, and I still feel incomplete and disquieted. As if s
Who am I? #83
Ardhnarishwar (The Half Man-Woman) Wood Mosaic/ Mural, 27 x 27 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India (Not Available) I am very fascinated with the concept of Ardhnarishwra (the half-man, half-woman) in Hindu mythology. It represents the synthesis of masculine and feminine energies in the universe and is also called Purusha and Prakriti, where Purusha (Shive) is the male energy and Prakriti (Parvati) is the female energy. Both are inseparable and are con
Who am I? #82
Chess Wood Mosaic/ Mural, 37 x 37 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India Observing my thoughts and emotions is very interesting. At first glance, it looks like chaos, but looking at it minutely, I see a kind of pattern. It's like a game of chess. It looks like my thoughts and emotions have separated themselves from reality and are trying to manipulate it all the time. My thoughts and emotions take a part of reality, polish it, and make their own virtual
Who am I? #81
Hope Amidst Chaos Wood Mosaic/ Mural, 22 x 21 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Vienna, Austria In search of myself, whenever I reflect upon my inner and outer lives, I feel myself drifting in a web of unending logic and emotions. There is no trace of my real self. It's a beautiful mess. But amidst this crazy chaos, there lies a hope that says, "Relax, it's just a matter of time. Everything will be clear. This is how it is. You will come to know who you really are!" Wer
Who am I? #80
Athato Aatam Jigyasa. Now the search for my real self starts, Wood Mosaic/ Mural, 37 x 37 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India Each time the ultimate question arises, "Who am I?", I close my eyes and say to myself "Athato Aatam Jigyasa (Now the search for my real self starts)". As I look at my thoughts and emotions, I find my mind continuously splitting reality into pieces and rearranging the pieces with his logic but failing to conclude anything. My e
Who am I? #79
A Watcher on the Hills? Wood Mosaic/ Mural, 31 x 38 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India Who am I? To know my real self, I often close my eyes and try to look inside myself. Who is there? Who is writing these lines? Is it only my mind? Yes, thoughts are there, coming and going continuously. But there are many other beings in me. Someone wants to be rich, someone wants to be famous, someone wants to just travel, someone wants to bring about a revolution
Who am I? #78
Trying to Know Myself with Mantras and Symbols Wood Mosaic/ Mural, 37 x 37 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India Most of the eastern gurus and saints have used mantras and symbols (like Om, Ek Onkar, Hoo, Tibetan Hum, etc.) in their teachings. According to them, the utterance of mantras or concentrating on certain symbols can reveal the ultimate truth by burning unnecessary desires and sensations. I too have felt calmness and sometimes a glimpse of a wa
Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram
The Truth, the God, the Beauty Wood Mosaic/ Mural, 22 x 22 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India (Not Available) I love another concept of Hindu mythology; Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram. The Truth, the God, the Beauty. According to this concept, Satyam (the Truth) is an experience without your mind and all hypotheses. The experience of an innocent child whose mind is not yet polluted by any kind of information or knowledge. Shivam (the God) is the experience
Who am I? #77
Zorba the Buddha Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 37 x 37 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India In search of myself, I see a kind of duality in me. A part of me likes to indulge in all kinds of sensual and sexual pleasures in life. But another part of me also likes to sit silently, doing nothing and just watching myself, my thoughts, and the surrounding activities. Who is it who likes both aspects? Is it Zorba the Buddha? Or just a crazy but happy guy? मैं कौन हूँ?
Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh
The Creator, the Preserver, and the Destroyer Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 28 x 33 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India I love the concept of the Hindu Trinity: Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh. According to Hindu mythology, Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the administrator (preserver), and Mahesh (Shiva) is the destroyer of the universe. All religions in the world, believe in the creator, God. But maybe Hinduism is the only religion that believes in a destroyer
Woman
The pride of the earth has started to bloom. Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 30 x 18 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Vienna, Austria (Not Available) Since ancient times, women have been forced to live a subhuman life in almost all the societies on earth. In a man-oriented society, with blunt force and subtle and cunning religious thoughts, the buds of their wishes, desires, and dreams were turned into knots. Even now, most of the women on earth are not living as well as men. But
Lord Ganesha #10
Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 50 x 50 cm, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Vienna, Austria Lord Ganesha #10 Holzmosaik/ Skulptur, 50 x 50 cm, 2023 Sureel Kumar भगवान गणेश #10 लकड़ी मोज़ेक / मूर्तिकला, 50 x 50 सेमी, 2023 सुरील कुमार ਭਗਵਾਨ ਗਣੇਸ਼ # 10 ਲੱਕੜ ਮੋਜ਼ੈਕ / ਮੂਰਤੀ, 50 x 50 ਸੈਂਟੀਮੀਟਰ, 2023 ਸੁਰੀਲ ਕੁਮਾਰ
Who am I? #76
Am I just a seed, full of desires, getting ready to bloom? Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 16 x 23 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Vienna, Austria I still feel like a seed that has already cracked. I can feel glimpses of the flowering process in the background. But at the same time, the seed is overwhelmed by many strange desires. At different times, different desires try to influence the flowering process of the seed. Sometimes, desires with like-minded motives form a group an
Venus of Willendorf
Just a bundle of utilitarian motives held together with the crafty sacred thread of a cunningly male-oriented society? Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 48 x 23 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India If I look at the 25000-year-old female figurine of Venus of Willendorf, I see it as a bundle of utilitarian motives of the male-oriented society of that time. A female figure with massive and erotic breasts to feed children and please adult males? A weakling and unf
Lord Ganesha #9
Arising from the Play of Shiva and Shakti Wood Mosaic/ Mural, 24 x 30 inches, 2022 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India (Not Available) भगवान गणेश #9 शिव और शक्ति के खेल से उत्पन्न! लकड़ी मोज़ेक / म्यूरल 24 x 30 इंच, 2022 सुरील कुमार ਭਗਵਾਨ ਗਣੇਸ਼ # 9 ਸ਼ਿਵ ਅਤੇ ਸ਼ਕਤੀ ਦੇ ਖੇਡ ਤੋਂ ਪੈਦਾ ਹੋਇਆ ਲੱਕੜ ਮੋਜ਼ੈਕ/ ਮੂਰਲ 24 x 30 ਇੰਚ, 2022 ਸੁਰੀਲ ਕੁਮਾਰ
Who am I? #75
On my table, again, some pieces made a shape and asked me, "Who am I?" Wood Mosaic / Sculpture, 26 x 9 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India I am, but I don't know who I am. Is it the same with everyone? How can I know? Maybe, maybe not. Whenever I look at anything or anybody around me, I always ask myself, Does this thing or a person know who she is? Today again, I saw a strange shape made of some wooden pieces on my table. I felt as if they were asking
Love & Marriage
Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 14 x 16 inches (2 Pieces), 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Vienna, Austria As I see it, love is just a "happening". We can't force it to happen. Love is like a breeze, it comes on its own and goes by itself. It's like a gift. I feel we, as human beings, know well that Love is momentary. Maybe that's why we try to make it permanent by converting love into a bondage (marriage). But love can't be possessed. Liebe & Ehe Holzmosaik/ Skulptur, 35,6 x 40,6 cm (
Who am I? #74
A Watcher? Watching the Struggle between my Emotions and Logic? Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 25 x 25 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India Whenever I ponder the basic question "Who am I?", I try to look inside myself. Mostly, I see a struggle between my emotions and rationality in me. But I also feel the presence of a calm watcher in the background, watching this struggle. Who is this watcher? Is it my real self? मैं कौन हूँ? #74 मेरी भावनाओं और तर्क के बीच संघ
Who am I? #73
Hidden Behind A Beautiful Labyrinth? Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 25 x 25 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India Who am I? Am I just a continuously changing physical body? Or am I a complex mind, full of coming and going thoughts? Or am I a robot controlled by strong emotions? Maybe I am a combination of a physical body, mind, and emotions. But then, who is hidden behind this beautiful labyrinth of body, mind, and emotions that is watching calmly inside me? मैं
Who am I? #72
Am I among those or am I beyond them, in the background? Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 37 x 37 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India Whenever I look inside, I find many voices or beings within me. Each one has its own agenda. Most of the time, they are competing with each other and trying to prove their superiority over others. Am I one of them? or am I beyond them, somewhere in the background? Who am I? मैं कौन हूँ? # 72 क्या मैं उन में से हूं या मैं पृष्ठभूमि
Parshvanath Magic Square #6
The Origin of Human Life - The Prehistoric Fish?! Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 25 x 25 inches, 2022 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India This is the 6th artwork in a new series based on the mysterious Parshvanath Magic Square. This magic square is engraved in a granite slab and embedded in the wall of a 10th-century Parshvanath temple in Khajuraho, MP, India. This is the first 4x4 most perfect magic square found in India. I strongly feel that the Parshvanath Magic Square h
Who am I? #71
A Glimpse... A Gift ! Wood Mosaic/ Sculpture, 37 x 37 inches, 2023 Sureel Kumar Location: Gidderbaha, Pb, India Osho's gestures, voice, eyes, signature, pauses during his speech—everything is like Midas's touch that brings a kind of calmness, peace, and joy to me. In some rare moments, they have helped me to have a glimpse of someone in me, that is a kind of presence, which is watching my thoughts and emotions silently. Those are the moments when I am at peace with everythin
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