STREAMS by Shalu
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Medium: Acrylics , rust, fabric, pyrography on canvas
Dimensions: 66 x 101 cm
Year: 2021
Price: $600.00 USD
Status: available
Streams reflects on erosion through the transient formation of a puddle and the striations it leaves behind as the mud dries. Using pyrography, the surface is burned and marked, evoking both heat and abrasion. Layered textures trace the earth’s skin—scored, altered, and reshaped—where water, time, and erosion leave quiet but enduring imprints of movement and change.
Why collect this work?
STREAMS organizes two circular forms against vertical bands and repeated striations. Their interrupted rotation translates erosion into a tension between flow, accumulation, and resistance.
- Shalu’s statement identifies mark-making, material change, and chance as central to her mixed-media practice. That intention helps explain why scoring, staining, and abrasion carry as much visual weight here as recognizable imagery.
- In the photograph, a rust-toned ring dominates the right half, while a cropped circle presses against the left edge. Purple linear patterns spread around them like channels or exposed strata, making the field appear geological and diagrammatic.
- The catalogue records acrylic, rust, fabric, and pyrography on canvas. Together, these media allow painted, embedded, oxidized, and burned marks to register distinct forms of alteration, though the photograph cannot establish their precise texture or condition.
- Dated 2021, STREAMS is productively encountered as an ecological image formed through residue rather than conventional landscape description. The catalogue’s reference to a dried puddle makes absence, not flowing water, the subject.
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.
