Title: G-add 9
Year Completed: 2023
Size: 18”x 24”
Technical: Oil on canvas

The G-add 9 art piece is a highly personalized work for a friend who is passionate about music, guitar, piano, and chess. This art demonstrates a perspective view of guitar where fretboard acts as a chessboard and piano keys. The notes of a G scale are represented by chess pieces symmetrically such that the pieces fall in G major scale while being led by their king in centre. The system’s symmetry changes to a G-add 9 chord, if one of the chess pieces is moved. What does that move? Only that person who knows chess, guitar, and piano can decipher it. The message behind this artwork is that chess pieces are not always for war, against each other but they can also work together and can be used to create beautiful rhythm. Only thing needed is a change of perspective.