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South Africa
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This first piece in my 2019 collection signifies the beginning of a very creative and explorative year combining landscape and animal, specifically birds, in a experimental relationship with each other. The flowing ink strokes in the background depicts the landscape of working-class suburbia of my childhood where a bleakness of looming adulthood meets the spaciousness of a child’s empty wanderings. Artist Gao Xing Jian’s easy confidence in his evocative brushstrokes encourages me to use less, to say more. An owl, long-standing symbol of wisdom, is surrounded by a renaissance-inspired halo that separates it from the background and gives a kind of ‘inner’ frame to read the owl’s presence as being poised to move from imposed order into the destiny of it’s own, wild divinity. I chose to be playful and combine smooth, realistic execution with crafted imperfection and flat spaces. When I allow decorative elements such as the design of the halo to come through, I find that there is space in me to place simple shapes effectively on paper as well. The artwork has been purchased by a Cape Town veterinary who has a special affinity for owls and whose own lineage is strongly artistic.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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South Africa
I use painting and drawing as tools for telling stories, and I use my story-like images to find a way to create a connection between the viewer’s own inner narratives and to the current environmental issues that are looming over our very existence. It is my stance that humans share a universal language of wonder, humour and curiosity. By allowing myself to engage with this part of myself when I play with art materials, I reach for the wonder in other people. My work becomes a type of spiritual activism in that it draws on attitudes that connects us at our core, rather than focusing on cerebral narratives of power and elitism. I use vestiges of already-existing mythology to allow the familiar stories to guide the more unfamiliar ideas closer into the viewer’s frame of acceptance and embrace. My aim as an artist is to absolutely insist on the relationship we have with nature as alive and I argue for the symbiotic necessity of relationships between non-human and non-human. My artwork is a testament to my clumsy inward fumbling of getting to know my humanness as much part of nature as what any other creature is. With each of my artworks sold, a donation from the selling price is made to an environmental cause, such as Friends Of Free Wildlife http://www.friendsoffreewildlife.co.za/
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