Cyclic

Cyclic
Oil on Canvas
2020

This body of work, Cyclic, explores the cycles and the homeostasis of organic living materials as a metaphor for life. I deconstruct the simultaneous moment of decay and the emergence of life through manipulating structures, forms, and colors of organic structures like a reproductive element of plants, fruits; the places from which life begins. By constructing and abstracting natural forms, the notion of loss of identity and creation of a space to question what is natural, asks how we perceive decay and where humans belong in the natural world. My process of translating the organic subject matter through photography to drawings to paintings simulates the inevitable loss and transformation of information when the living expires, creating a visual metaphor of decomposition.

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