Botanical Interruptions by @ManikVisuals
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Medium: DIGITAL
Dimensions: 18 x 32 in
Year: 2026
Price: $848.00 USD
Status: available
Botanical Interruptions is a phygital artwork composed through layered photography, painterly gestures, and digital manipulation. Fragmented printed text and typographic traces are disrupted by organic, leaf-like forms that push through the surface. Saturated blues and greens dominate the composition, evoking growth and renewal amid visual noise. The interruption of language by botanical elements creates a tension between natural presence and mediated information, where meaning is partially erased, overwritten, and re-formed.
Why collect this work?
Large, cropped letterforms are repeatedly obscured by leaf-like shapes, making interruption the work’s organizing principle rather than a break in an otherwise stable image.
- The artist profile describes Manik Das’s practice as combining physical painting with digital and AI-assisted processes. Here, that stated interest in hybridity helps explain why photographic, typographic, figurative, and gestural elements remain visibly distinct while occupying one compressed field.
- In the supplied photograph, oversized letters cross the upper and central zones, a face appears at the top left, and smaller text fragments surface below. Dense cyan, green, purple, and orange forms prevent any single passage from becoming fully legible.
- Catalogued as a 2026 digital print, the medium makes sharp cropping, repetition, transparency, and abrupt chromatic shifts possible. These operations turn reading into partial recognition rather than continuous comprehension.
- The work is useful for examining how botanical imagery can compete with, rather than simply illustrate, mediated language. Its 18-by-32-inch vertical format concentrates that contest into a narrow, poster-like field.
About the Artist
@ManikVisuals
@ManikVisuals is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Kolkata, IN.
Nationality: Indian
My practice fuses physical painting with digital and AI-assisted processes to create phygital artworks.
