Deposits by Hansa Sethi
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Medium: Mix Media on Canvas, strechted on wooden frame
Dimensions: 12 x 12 in
Year: 2026
Price: $650.00 USD
Status: available
The spiral is not a beginning — it is an archive. Every ring holds what has already been lived, compressed but not erased. Around it, new threads emerge and loop, not replacing what came before but joining it, becoming part of the same accumulating structure. This is not identity remade. It is identity grown — layer upon layer, experience upon experience, the old and the new becoming inseparable.
Why collect this work?
A tightly wound central spiral anchors a field of wandering linear forms, making accumulation appear less like orderly growth than a negotiation between compression and dispersal.
- Sethi describes her practice as an inquiry into identity and psychological experience. Here, her stated idea of identity accumulating rather than being remade is concentrated in the ringed core.
- In the photograph, dark olive contours loop across a rust-red ground, while the circular centre is denser, darker and more regular. This contrast gives the centre the force of a record under pressure.
- The catalogued mixed media on canvas permits raised-looking lines, layered colour and abrupt changes in density. The photograph suggests relief, though its actual depth and surface cannot be confirmed from the image alone.
- At 12 by 12 inches, according to the catalogue, Deposits compresses its expansive network into a compact format. It is useful for considering how abstraction can picture memory as retained structure without turning experience into narrative illustration.
About the Artist
Hansa Sethi
Hansa Sethi is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Mixed Media. Based in Jabalpur, IN.
Nationality: Indian
Hansa Sethi is a psychological and philosophical artist whose work explores thought, emotion, identity, and existence.
