Echoes of the Digital Shakti by @ManikVisuals
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Medium: Mixed MEDIA
Dimensions: 12 x 18 in
Year: 2022
Price: $650.00 USD
Status: available
In Echoes of the Digital Shakti, myth and memory collide in a storm of color and form. This phygital mixed media painting channels the energy of both the natural world and heroic archetypes—most strikingly through a fragmented Heman-like visage rising from a jungle of digital leaves and glitch-infused textures. Layers of scanned physical textures interweave with digitally altered elements, creating a charged, almost spiritual atmosphere. The piece explores themes of power, transformation, and identity in the age of digital mythology—where every face is both ancient and re-coded, and every stroke pulses with primal energy.
Why collect this work?
Three repeated facial fragments interrupt an all-over field of cyan, orange, pink and red, turning recognisable identity into a motif that is continually absorbed by abstraction.
- Manik Das describes a practice combining physical painting with digital and AI-assisted processes. Here, that hybrid approach helps frame the tension between gestural-looking marks and conspicuously repeated imagery.
- In the supplied photograph, rectangular face panels recur at different heights while a larger, less bounded visage appears near the centre. Their sharp edges briefly organise the dense colour before pattern overwhelms figure again.
- Catalogued as mixed-media digital art from 2022, the work uses repetition, cropping and layered transparency, operations that can make one image function simultaneously as portrait, interruption and visual texture.
- The work provides a focused case for examining how digital recombination alters portraiture: identity is not erased, but distributed across copies that compete with their surrounding 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.
