Swirls and comes back by Shalu
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Medium: oil and rust on canvas
Dimensions: 33 x 33 cm
Year: 2021
Price: $400.00 USD
Status: available
Swirls and Come Back is an oil painting from the Body Language series, exploring emotional turmoil and the restless cycle of overthinking. Swirling forms and layered gestures mirror erratic emotions and inner conflict, where thoughts spiral, retreat, and return. The body becomes a vessel for these shifting states, expressing vulnerability, tension, and the uneasy rhythm of the mind in flux.
Why collect this work?
A broad rust-orange circuit turns around a dark hollow, making recurrence legible as both circular motion and obstruction rather than simple release.
- Shalu describes mark-making, material change and chance as central to her mixed-media practice. Here, those concerns help frame the image as a record of competing gestures, while the emotional reading remains artist-reported intention rather than visible fact.
- In the photograph, the main circular form sits below centre and is crossed by a dark vertical band. Scratched diagonals, wavering contours and descending black marks prevent the composition from settling, supporting the title’s pattern of departure and return.
- Catalogued as oil and rust on canvas, the medium permits painted control to meet irregular oxidation and staining. This contrast gives the circle a worked, accretive appearance, though the photograph cannot confirm its physical texture or exact colour.
- Dated 2021 and measuring 33 by 33 cm, this painting is a focused encounter with repetition: bodily aperture, mechanical wheel and eroded surface remain unresolved within the same compact field.
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.
