Abdus Salaam’s work begins through poetry and extends through his multimedia practice. His art is contemporary in its theosophical minimalism, combining mediums and often focusing on their essence as the basis and purpose of the work. The focus of his recent body of work ‘Falls of Abundance’ is the nature of creation as shadows and the singular light from which those shadows are cast. In continuing with Salaam’s exploration of “light painting,” he uses synthetic chemicals photographic paper, light, and instinctual motions in the obscurity of a photographic darkroom. Contrasting the cold and scientific darkroom process, Salaam combines clay, glass, and acrylic paint and video to further share the poetry of the natural world as it relates to the spiritual/metaphysical reality.
