A series of Mixedmedia Collages

Themed the Global Climate Emergency & Inhuman - Animal Clashes, this Series of 7 Mumbai flood-damaged 'family and travel' photographs with acrylic painting on top is in 2 parts - the First Part of 3 is titled - Cloudburst, The Tsunami, and Sinking Sisters. It talks about how distances, estrangement, and reunion/connections are enhanced by coastal flooding. Pieces consist of photographs from my family albums, flood-damaged beyond recognition, thanks to the combined onslaught of the tidewater /cloud-burst/ deluge 930 mm rain disaster that struck Mumbai island on July 26, 2005.
A grim reminder to the world about Coastal flooding due to the Climate Emergency, especially in low-lying terrain. And how it drives a wedge of the unbearable distance between members of a family, a community, a city. Cloudburst is set in Mumbai, Tsunami in Chennai and Southern India, and Sinking Sisters draws a parallel between Venice and Mumbai, both sinking cities.
From pre-historic times, human beings and wildlife have always in conflict in the struggle for survival. This human-wildlife conflict is caused by competition for natural resources, impacting human food security and the safety of both humans and animals. These conflicts have increased the world over in recent decades as a result of human population growth and the transformation of land use. These clashes, often very violent, have led to losses to people and their resources, as well as to wildlife and their habitats.
These clashes are a serious global threat to sustainable development, food security and conservation in both urban and rural spaces. Their consequences include crop destruction, reduced agricultural productivity, competition for grazing lands and water supply, livestock predation, injury and death to human, damage to infrastructure, and increased risk of disease transmission among wildlife and livestock.
In forests, large deer can cause severe damage to the vegetation and compromise regeneration by trampling or feeding on small trees, rubbing themselves on trees or stripping tree bark. This has serious economic implications and leads to polarization between forest and wildlife managers.
Elephants raid cultivated fields to forage on crops, carnivores like tigers, leopards an hyenas prey on domestic animals such as sheep, goats, hens and cattle.
Resolving human-wildlife conflicts and fostering coexistence requires well-informed, holistic and collaborative processes that take into account underlying social, cultural and economic contexts.
As human-wildlife conflict inflicts direct and indirect consequences on people and animals, its mitigation is an important priority for the management of biodiversity and protected areas.
The silver lining is that increasingly, human-wildlife conflict is being included in various National policies and strategies for wildlife management, development and poverty alleviation are being adopted worldwide.
My specially created series of Acrylic Paintings seeks to highlight how the more powerful humans generally tend to win in these conflicts. Witness The depleting natural hatching beaches of Olive Ridley turtles across India coastline, the annual massacre of Blue Whates in Denmark, the urbanization of the Pink Flamino's natural migratory marshlands in Mumbai, and the cruel bombs hidden inside pineapples that killed the pregnant Indian Elephant in Kerala.

  • Murali - Raman
    Visual Artist
  • Date Taken:
    February 14, 2025
  • Camera:
    various home cameras , pictures taken over a period of time
  • Student Project:
    No
  • different awards for atworks and art video, please see social media on https//:linktr.ee/Muralir and website
Artist Biography

Murali Raman Profile
www.muraliraman.com https://www.muraliraman.com/art-gallery.html
I'm Mumbai based multimedia visual artist.

Apart from a variety of media, like oils, sacrylics, metal and wood installations, audio visual presentations, I also make art videos,
Mammoth Wall Murals. Large & Small Canvases
 Wall Murals in public and Event spaces, homes, media and communication office spaces.
I also make /offer large-format canvases and 3-D Art Installations of different scales, magnitudes & materials to fit Architects’, Interior Designers’, Clients’ and Corporate Offices’ vision of their work and living spaces.
Exhibitions
I have participated in many exhibitions, offline and online. These include the two Pune Biennales in 2015 and 2017, as well as The Lacuna Art Festival, Lanzarote, 4 years in a row.
• Currently exhibiting, on physical as well as online galleries, a series of Acrylic paintings on a collage of Flood-damaged personal photographs, on the theme of CLASH for The Lacuna Art Festival, 2022 – The Inhuman Clash – Human-Animal Conflict.

• Exhibition of photographs, Bordering on Parsiana on Parsi Gara Sarees, at the KGAF 2011

• Art Installation, Fenester – The Worlds of Possibility, also at KGAF 2011
This installation project takes a holistic and fantastic look at the possibilities of windows, in an unconventional manner.

• Acrylics Triumph of Action at the Art Plaza in Mumbai in 2010

• Showcased short film Chocolate Xcess at the KGAF 2010

• Exhibited MS Paint graphics for a show A Murder of Crows at the KGAF 2004

• Exhibited two series of paintings Triumph of Action I & II at Mood Indigo Festival 2011 at IIT Bombay

• A mammoth 18’ x 25’ Wall Mural, The Wild, Wild West at Mood Indigo, 2011

• Installations selected at the IFAA Arts Festival in Indore, Jan. 2011.

• Exhibited Art Installation, The Incredibly Big Bang! at the KGAF 2012.

• Conducted & exhibited at IIT TechFest 2015, a 3-part interactive Installation, Creation of Dino, Dino’s Eye, The Incredibly Big Bang –III over 3 days in January.

• Selected as an Installation Artist by The Pune Biennale 2015, Pune, and set up and exhibited a 4-part Interactive Installation, Khidkiyaa – Looking Back in Time, in February 2015, made from scrap metal from auto junkyards at The Deccan College Grounds, Pune.

• Exhibited acrylics+oils+tea of Aerial Views – SkEye High at the India Art Festival , Mumbai Nov-Dec 2015

• Also exhibited Waterside Cityscapes at Mumbai to Delhi, a Group Show at Gallery Lokayata, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi, Jan – Feb 2016

• Exhibited in Symphony, a Group Show at Gallery RDD Neroy, Mumbai, Feb 2016

• Exhibited my acrylic-multimedia works at The Pune Biennale January-Feb 2017, Balgandharva Rang Mandira Gallery, Pune.

• Exhibited at Kalaa Spandan Art Fair, Nov 2019

• Exhibition of acrylics/multimedia on paper & canvas at KalaKevalam2019, Feb 2019

• Exhibited Video Art Installation and Acrylic Painting at The Lacuna Festival, Lanzarote, Canary Islands and in France, 2019

• Made Video art collaboration Film, The Hugging Club, on the Chipko Movement, for The Lacuna Art Festival LOST, 2020. Also exhibited three artworks on the climate emergency, Migration crisis and loss of identity, in the festivals online galleries.

• Conducted LIVE 20:20, an online live drawing workshop for Lanzarote Festival, Spain, 2020.

• Exhibiting 3 multimedia artworks on the Climate Emergency & Coastal Flooding at the online ArtStep portal, for The Lacuna Art Festival, Distance 2021

• My Experimental, Live-Action, Animation, VFX Short Film, Anantashayanam – The Cosmic Dream Sleep of Vishnu, continues to win awards at various Art and Film contests and Shows the world over, and in India too.

• Was selected for The Bombay Art Society’s Colors of Independence Exhibition and won a Certificate of Merit for one of my paintings too.

• Exhibited 2 Acrylics at The BAS Art Carnival, September 2024.

Links to some of my Art
• Videos of two of my installation projects:
• The Incredibly Big Bang, an Art Installation about cosmology, the Creation of the Universe, as seen in all theologies. 6 ft fibreglass and spray paint, interactive, Kala Ghoda Arts Fest 2012 & IIT Techfest 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd34l7a3xww
• Khidkiyaa: Looking Back in Time
A 5-part Sculptural Art Installation at the Pune Biennale 2015, where I used discarded auto parts from the Pune Bus Service junkyard to weld into Social Media-based installations that talk of how History is Rewritten over time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NycXpaeXMO4
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153586484472589&type=3
• Youtube id – Glimpsesofmywork https://www.youtube.com/user/Glimpsesofmywork
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• The God who was King & The Queen who was Goddess
7.5 ft x 3 ft Patachitra Mural depicting The Ramayana from Sita’s perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3FUtIfZ-eg
• Glimpses of some of my earlier work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Doh8HEld8
• Select albums on face book: Murali Raman

Atmashatakam Series:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10155300352552589&type=3

Passion Series 1:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10150379051402589&set=a.10150379050412589

Some Corporate Office Murals: (Title of Album: Media Corporate Office & Digit 9.0
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152812098512589&type=3

Instagram Art Account:
@the_terribly_tiny_studyo

My recent Art Video currently doing the rounds of international film festivals: Anantashayanam - The Cosmic Dream Sleep of Vishnu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k2YnGjqLKA
Anantashayanam, - The Cosmic Dream Sleep of Vishnu, is my live-action/Animation, Experimental, Art Video Film of 3: 37 mins duration. It draws a clear parallel between The Scientifically Accepted Big Bang and Big Crunch Theory of Cosmology, of the Creation of the Universe, and the Hindu God Vishnu's cyclical sleep on Ananta, the 1000 headed serpent on the eternal milky ocean.
Official Selections:
 Pune Short Film Festival 2021
 13th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2022
 Lanzarote Arts Festival, Canary Island, 2019
 Larroque Arts Fest, France
 International New York Film Festival
 Indie Short Fest , LA, USA - Animation
 Indie Short Fest , LA, USA - Best Short Film
 Indie Short Fest , LA, USA - VFX
 Indie-X Film Fest, LA
 South Asian Short Film Festival
 Druk Intl. Film Festival, Bhutan
 Ayodhya Film Festival 2021
 The $5 Film Festival - Semi-Finalist
 Arunachal Arts & Literature Festival, Arunachal Pradesh, India
 8th Mumbai Intl. Short film Festival 2019
 3rd South Asian Short Film Festival
 Golden State Film Festival, L A
 Round The Frame Film Festival 2024
Awards
 Bombay Arts Festival Colors of Independence 75th Independence Day Competition & Exhibition – Special Merit Certificate
 Other Awards for Contribution to Art
For my Art Video:
 13th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2022 -Honorable Mention
 DIFF-2019 - Best Experimental Film
 Five Continents International Film Fest, Venezuela, 2019 - Best Experimental Film and Best Art Direction
 The Arunachal Art Festival 2020 - Special Mention
 Special Mention for VFX
 International New York Film Festival 2020 - Semi Finalist
 Ayodhya Film Festival 2021– Honorable Mention
Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4SsXZWH360
 From the Darkness of Ignorance to the Light of Knowledge.
 Space: 53ft x 30 ft wall mural.
 Venue: Shree Ram Welfare Society School in Andheri West, Mumbai
 This visual metaphor has a simple story to relate. The layered narratives here - the kids determinedly climbing up the wall of a huge notebook and pulling down the page to reveal the brilliant light of knowledge is parallel to the dark, confused, ignorant, state of mind giving way to a glorious dawn in a radiant sky...and the brilliant sun dispels all fears, imparts knowledge and gives confidence.
The treatment is a stylized ode to one of my favourite legendary masters - Vincent Van Gogh.

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Artist Statement

My deep committment to the cause of creating environmental awareness manifests in my various art initiatives. Theses collages in multimedia are intensely personal as well since they use as a substratum, family photographs of my dear ones from all over the world, as well as records of our travels overseas from India and inside the country as weel.