Adithya, I have shared my critique. Let me share it here.
I would like to write two set of critiques. One, rewinding the time by about 5 years and another one as of today.
Critique (if you had asked me 5 years ago)
Life is a coin with two sides - pleasure and pain. This series very effectively portrays the latter facet of the life, the pain. This is very evident in
all those cracks, splits, whirls and rubbles. The series seem to have 'split' as a theme across multiple images in interesting ways. Just as contrasting
split of dark and light with sprinkled rubbles or as whirl as half of it and unaffected/stubborn/constant or as flowers in a half and an empty other half.
The lone floating leaf and floating leaves with rubbles in another seem to scream helplessness. I think the artist has successfully frozen his state of
mind honestly and truthfully in this effective series of evocative images.
Current Critique
A little context before the critique itself. Most of the time I don't live on your planet, the so called 'earth' anymore. I live in a beautiful planet a few million
light years away from your earth, in a different solar system. My family still lives on earth. While I live here most of the time I end up shuttling between
these two places which I don't like much. Wish I can stay here permanently. Anyway, back to where I live now, my planet is an interesting one. It also
has something called 'life'. Not how you understand the term 'life' on earth. I will talk about it some other day. Interestingly, here we are so advanced
scientifically that we have overcome speed of light constraints that you 'humans' on the earth have not concurred yet. I can see the so called 'life' on
the earth as of now and on other planets using some special equipments sitting here. I can see a line of 'ants' on the earth or flock of so called 'humans'.
The 'humans' really appear interesting! More so about their self centered view of the rest of the universe. Their definition of good and evil
which again is very self centered around their own 'species' (the 'humans') is very funny and interesting. Equally interesting are the so called
'emotions' and 'feelings' that they seem to have which I have not seen in the so called 'life' of other planets in the universe (which I can see from here).
The most interesting of all these is, you humans have not realised, yet, is all these, good/bad, beautiful/ugly, sad/happiness are just your personal truths. They are meaningless
in this universe of which you (earth) are a spec in dust. You behave as if your world is 'the world' which silly to say the least. However, I do understand the
limitations on your ability to know beyond a point. You may never know what is beyond you and you have already been programmed to 'emote' or 'feel' based
on from where you have started and where you are today in the timeline of universe. That may be part of your survival instinct. However, if you manage to
imagine an universe in which you are not in the center of it then it might help you reason about events that happen during you life span more 'meaningfully'.
With that note, let me share a few lines about your image series.
Having come from your planet 'earth' I very feebly relate to this series. At best, it is meaningless to me here, now. I am 100% sure that none of my 'friends' who are native
of this planet understand or appreciate this personal truth of yours. We have interest in images which sheds light on larger universal truth, which have far wider applicability.
Here too, we still don't understand the real universe at large. We have immense interest in universal truths portrayed as images. We have no interest in the nano personal
truth of yours coming from living in your micro world which by itself is infinitely small part of your planet earth.
You might say - 'this is my real truth, your imaginary truth is irrelevant to my life'. You are free to think so. I think you 'humans' may have some barrier around you which makes
it difficult for you get out of it. It may not be your inherent limitation as a 'person'. May be you are developing, in transition, yet far from advanced 'life'. You seem to have a layer
which you call 'ego' which is helping you survive but often leads you to misery. You humans seem to have failed to critically reason about it and a few other things and take a balanced stand.
I think mental make up of you humans may not be ideal today but I think it will transform. I am sure you 'humans' will get there, may be in a few million years from now.
Till then live happily in your myopic world of personal truths which are irrelevant in larger context of the real universe. Sorry, I hope I have not 'hurt' your 'feelings' (whatever
that means in your world).
Oh, there is a family emergency at my home on earth. Sigh...
I need to return back to earth now.
PS: For those who read this and thought I am too critical please don't think so. I have a very personal rapport with Adithya and I am privileged to write this (at least I think so ). Also, if you read carefully you will realise that I am critical of myself in this critique.