METAPHOR OF A FEELING by Shalu
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Medium: INK, BLEECH,RUST, WATERCOLOURS, PENS
Dimensions: 76 x 45 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $300.00 USD
Status: available
Metaphor of a Feeling is a mixed-media work that explores material in motion, where the body and the earth merge into a single, continuous form. Textures, layers, and shifting surfaces suggest the oneness of nature and the deep connection between human presence and the land. Through this fusion, the work reflects change and impermanence, where matter, emotion, and landscape exist in a constant state of transformation.
Why collect this work?
A long ochre figure bridges a dense horizontal band and a dark, seed-like enclosure below, turning bodily extension into a diagram of connection between surface and ground.
- Shalu describes mark-making as a way to explore nature and human presence. Here, that concern is legible in the figure whose arm, torso, and downward-reaching limb bind separate zones.
- Slender stalks rise above the central band while dotted trails descend beneath it. Their repeated circular tips make growth and falling appear structurally related rather than opposed.
- Catalogue metadata identifies ink, bleach, rust, watercolours, and pens on paper. These media permit both controlled linear marks and spreading stains, supporting the work’s tension between pattern and material drift.
- Dated 2025, the work can anchor an examination of how contemporary drawing combines the human outline with landscape systems, without resolving whether the figure nurtures, occupies, or emerges from the ground.
About the Artist
Shalu
Shalu is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Ahmedabad , India.
Nationality: Indian
My practice is multidisciplinary and rooted in mixed media.
