Sorry I'm Late, The World Was Ending
The new collection by Egodead
Sorry I'm late, the world was ending
There's a particular kind of dissonance in living through a moment that feels perpetually on the verge of collapse, yet still needing to do the laundry. Nishant's newest collection of paintings sits inside that gap.
Rather than depicting catastrophe, the work observes what surrounds it: a figure whose face holds happiness, grief, and unease all at once; a man lying in the grass, phone in hand, physically present and mentally somewhere else entirely; someone holding flowers whose meaning we can't quite read. The tension in each painting lives in what's left unresolved. Comfort and threat look the same from certain angles.
The title carries the series' core irony. It's an excuse, an apology, and an honest description of daily life right now. The world keeps almost ending, and we keep showing up anyway.
Sorry I'm late, the world was ending comprises three large-scale paintings in oils, acrylic, pastel, and charcoal on canvas. Each is a physical-first work: collecting means acquiring the original handcrafted painting, with the NFT serving as its permanent digital twin.
Nishant Malhotra (b.1996) is an Indian-American multidisciplinary artist living in New York City, merging form and formlessness to develop his visual language. He recontextualizes Vedic and ancient Indic philosophy into a contemporary context, using the “working man” as his muse. His practice explores themes of impermanence, identity, and consciousness. As a self-taught artist, Nishant has always gravitated towards painting, while also being multi-faceted, blending his practice with his Visual Communications Design degree skillset to create merchandise, cover art and marketing collateral for diamond-album recording artists and renowned fashion designers.Nishant has been able to communicate with different communities through his work, showing the breadth of people who resonate with his practice. As the landscapes of society; media, technology, and politics rapidly change, his work becomes increasingly more relevant to the 21st century.
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