Sketches, Drawings & Cartoons of Aloke Kumar

An image of yourself as seen by others is always welcome. It is like a mirror. One mirror is not enough to see yourself as others see you. When you look at a bathroom mirror you see an image of yourself with left and right reversed. I love caricatures, cartoons, portraits of self. I've always been fascinated by the fact that when others draw you they see you in a new perspective. The joy and power of these images is that it freezes us in time. Before it is executed, we were younger. After it has been created we will age. They preserve a specific moment in time: they cannot age and die. We look like this, naked and clothed. We are here, in this image, because an artist had something to say. Because we are all interesting. Because we cannot gaze into a mirror without being changed. Because we do not know who we are, but sometimes there is a light caught in someone's eyes, that comes close to giving us the tiniest hint of an answer. Whether they're satirical or silly, topical or timeless the contents of someone's image are part of his history.