"Extracting from earth/soil, Bala utilizes these pigments he created in the silkscreens and paintings on canvas; the resulting works not only describe the landscape or reflect its palette, but are substantively of it, determining not just the form, but its content at an elemental level."
"Prompted, like much of his recent work, the works mark an evolution in the artist’s deepening relationship with the environment—a sustained and expansive investigation of the natural world in which artmaking is both tool and record."
