4 ft x 6 ft
Oil, Acrylic, relief fabric and resin mixed media on Canvas
2021
Rufescent
4 ft x 6 ft
Oil, Acrylic, relief fabric and resin mixed media on Canvas
2021
Cartografiction
Cartography: the art of reading maps and the science involved in navigating routes and ways.
While to the naked eye, maps may seem like nothing more than curvy lines leading the viewer from one destination to the other, every map has a tale to tell.
To abstract reality and condense it in the form of a map is not based on accuracy. In a way, the fundamental component in generating a map to depict the environment is a dynamic process, the process of map abstraction.
As our limited viewpoint of the world that surrounds us, maps influence our spatial behaviour and spatial preferences and shape how we view the environment and our social fabric.
Using steel on a fabric canvas is an interplay of Yin-Yang, the soft and hard, the spontaneous and the structured. Randomised pieces of a puzzle that we call our home.
In a viewing of the works here, I-Land is man’s unique imprint on the planet, a virtual island inhabited by ideas of survival and evolution along with a reference to Cristos ephemeral island wrapped in plastic. D’Rift symbolises the melting ice and tactile planetary shift. Cloudy Bay and Bend in the Ganga denotes our wish to be immersed in the beauty of the planet we occupy, while Rufescent depicts the world’s obsession with moving to interstellar spaces and the occupation of the ‘red planet.’
– Jaideep Mehrotra