Created and Sold by Sarupa Sidaarth
Fire on the mountain, run, run, run! - Paintings
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| Dimensions | Weight |
|---|---|
36H x 48W x 2.25D in 91.44H x 121.92W x 5.71D cm | 9.07 kg 20 lb |
Mixed media on wood panel.
Size: 36 x 48 inches.
Series: Feast of fire.
Description: On my birthday, October 2, 2020 I received a cosmic gift. I lost 15 years’ worth of art, more than a hundred paintings to the Glass Fire in St. Helena, California. Everything we owned was reduced to ashes in the wildfire.My response to the profound and unimaginable loss was to accept it on the spot. I detached from my former script and stopped flirting with permanence. What seems fixed is actually fluid. I look for no meaning; it cannot be understood as an isolated incident. It is an integrated part of the whole. I found myself in a dynamic interchange between the local and the global, the personal and the universal.Today a significant part of my artistic legacy survives only in digital format with no tangible form and no comprehensive record of experimental work or markers of creative evolution. The images in these paintings are of destroyed paintings. I confront life’s non-negotiable curve balls by making a ritual out of creativity. The unfathomable and the indescribable can only be expressed through art.
The ornate motifs of fire in this painting evoke the interplay between the destructive and the sacred. Fire is beneficent and maleficent; the fire of the sun, hearth and destruction. I chose to interpret this life-changing event with the positive, symbolic meaning of fire, that of cleansing and rebirth. In this time of darkness, I will be my own light.
Size: 36 x 48 inches.
Series: Feast of fire.
Description: On my birthday, October 2, 2020 I received a cosmic gift. I lost 15 years’ worth of art, more than a hundred paintings to the Glass Fire in St. Helena, California. Everything we owned was reduced to ashes in the wildfire.My response to the profound and unimaginable loss was to accept it on the spot. I detached from my former script and stopped flirting with permanence. What seems fixed is actually fluid. I look for no meaning; it cannot be understood as an isolated incident. It is an integrated part of the whole. I found myself in a dynamic interchange between the local and the global, the personal and the universal.Today a significant part of my artistic legacy survives only in digital format with no tangible form and no comprehensive record of experimental work or markers of creative evolution. The images in these paintings are of destroyed paintings. I confront life’s non-negotiable curve balls by making a ritual out of creativity. The unfathomable and the indescribable can only be expressed through art.
The ornate motifs of fire in this painting evoke the interplay between the destructive and the sacred. Fire is beneficent and maleficent; the fire of the sun, hearth and destruction. I chose to interpret this life-changing event with the positive, symbolic meaning of fire, that of cleansing and rebirth. In this time of darkness, I will be my own light.
Item Fire on the mountain, run, run, run!
Created by Sarupa Sidaarth
As seen in Creator's Studio, Novato, CA
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