Memoir from Kappad by Nasha Maryam
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Medium: Acrylics on canvas
Dimensions: 25 x 25 cm
Year: 2024
Price: $700.00 USD
Status: available
Memoir from Kappad 🌊 “ Oh storm, carry our fond memories to the deepest of our hearts! Oh rain, water it as we wither away! Oh clouds, shade our sorrows with the beautiful breezes of love! dear sea, carry us to the farthest lands of hope! ‘ Painting of the Kappad beach in Kozhikode where the Portuguese first arrived before the British colonial era in India. Once a blooming port now a peaceful n calm beach retreat!
Why collect this work?
A low horizon gives most of this small square painting to a dense, descending cloud mass, turning a coastal view into a study of pressure, distance and uncertain weather.
- Maryam describes landscape as a means of connecting with memories of place. Here, she identifies the setting as Kappad Beach in Kozhikode and links it to recollection, colonial history and hope.
- In the photograph, open water forms a narrow lower band while layered blues converge above it. A small dark projection at the far right interrupts the otherwise spare horizon and fixes the scene to land.
- The documented acrylic-on-canvas medium permits opaque dark passages beside thin-looking transitions of blue and white. On this 25-centimetre canvas, those contrasts compress the apparent scale of sea and storm.
- Encountering this work alongside contemporary coastal landscapes could open questions about how a shoreline carries both personal memory and histories of arrival, even when the image itself withholds narrative detail.
About the Artist
Nasha Maryam
Nasha Maryam is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Sharjah, AE.
Nationality: Indian
My signature art styles are seascapes and desertscape paintings. It is because I find in the desert the moments to pause, slow down and introspect.
