Drawing inspiration from what is immediately visible, Shyam’s oeuvre of work consists of an
endless engagement with the intangible of the world around him, which is effortlessly made
manifest through a delectably bright array of colours onto his canvas. In his visual language,
themes and idioms are produced with a seeming urgency which is at once spontaneous, but also
carefully executed. His anthropomorphic figures are dramatised necessarily to capture this
sensation of the obscurely opposite which us human beings are confronted with in our everyday
lives. In his works, the observations made, both within and on the city of Varanasi, the material
and the immaterial, is parcellised into haphazardly drawn, individual boxes of detailed motifs
which perhaps capture the dynamism of a city as old as time itself, in its own all-embracing,
rapturous charm. It is like a photograph taken, freezing moments, thoughts and scenes against
their own odd, ill-fitting juxtaposition to life, immediately for perpetuity.