Created and Sold by Sarupa Sidaarth
Labyrinth vs Maze - Paintings
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Handmade
Woman Owned
Made In USA
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| Dimensions | Weight |
|---|---|
16H x 12W in 40.64H x 30.48W cm | 4.54 kg 10 lb |
Mixed media on wood panel.
Size: 12 x 16 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.
What my past has shaped me into has come into play. Today I view my life path as a mystical labyrinth, a unicursal or single, continuous path. It leads you towards the center and out if you make a conscious choice to move forward. Conversely, a maze, its multicursal counterpart, is a convoluted network of divergent paths with unpredictable outcomes. The maze symbolizes confusion, the labyrinth contemplation. After 2020, which one are you walking through?
Size: 12 x 16 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.
What my past has shaped me into has come into play. Today I view my life path as a mystical labyrinth, a unicursal or single, continuous path. It leads you towards the center and out if you make a conscious choice to move forward. Conversely, a maze, its multicursal counterpart, is a convoluted network of divergent paths with unpredictable outcomes. The maze symbolizes confusion, the labyrinth contemplation. After 2020, which one are you walking through?
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