Mortal Art for Mortal Beings
A bittersweet life.
A one-way journey.
Are you travelling comfortably?
Miniature model making and drawing provide a stage for the exploration of mortal existence, where the fine line separating youth and age, birth and death highlights our vulnerable condition as human beings.
The intimate juxtaposition of birth and mortality resides in these familiar miniature objects; sentimental in relation to juvenile times or with reference to debilitating age. They speak about our irreversible, inevitable journey from ‘the cradle to the grave’ and provide a platform for the projection of ones own authentic experience of true life. These objects nourish lived experience and are inseparable from the thoughts, feelings and associations anchored by them.
From the inanimate object to the bloody vessel where these authentic experience manifest, an artistic obsession for antonyms resides; the ‘grotesque’ is exquisitely drawn and the ‘undesirable’ is beautifully sculpted in miniature. For most mortals, images of death are unpalatable, uncontrollable, painful and often irrational. Such miniature representation elevates the subject to an art object, away from familiar brutal iconography of death
To be seduced by these unique miniature meditations is to enter a diminutive world that speaks about the universal mortal condition.