The Travelers Guide by Nasha Maryam Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Acrylics on canvas Dimensions: 50 x 40 cm Year: 2024 Price: $750.00 USD Status: available The Travelers Guide Who is a traveler? And where is his destination? The path chosen by him or the path that chooses him? Don’t we all have a single path or does our multitude paths define us? Let the paths that we chose lead us.. but sometimes let it happen subtly.. and let the wind carry you … without maps and without destinations… chase the clouds and the winds.. for they have a story of their own… Painting reference captured en route to Wadi Shees Sharjah UAE Why collect this work?A road sign pressed against the right edge interrupts an expansive sky, turning ordinary traffic guidance into a tension between prescribed movement and open-ended drift. Maryam’s profile connects her landscape practice to memories of places where she has lived. Here, a reference reportedly captured near Wadi Shees anchors that interest in a specific journey.Clouds occupy most of the painted field, while low, rough ground restricts the horizon. The sign’s arrows and visible “150m” impose measurable direction upon forms that appear unbounded and changeable.The documented acrylic medium permits both sharply bounded graphic shapes and graduated cloud modelling. That contrast separates the sign’s coded certainty from the sky’s less legible spatial depth.Encountered as a contemporary landscape, the painting complicates the genre through roadside infrastructure. Its significance lies in making navigation itself the subject: one system directs travel, while the clouds suggest movement without a mapped destination. About the ArtistNasha 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.
