Chitra Merchant - Beholding, 2024
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 76 x 112 cm
Image Dimensions: 76 x 112 cm
Unique Work
Unframed
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Chitra has been engaged with exploring the forest ecologies of the Western Ghats in South Indian for a few years now. Having grown up in this region, she travels back regularly and has a long standing connection to it passed down from her grandfather who was a forest officer in these parts.
She is particularly inspired by the 'Devakads' (Sacred Groves) found in these regions and the stories and mythologies that surround them.
Chitra also hopes to shed light on the many environmental issues and threats facing this fast diminishing landscape.
The trees in these artworks are very much rooted in observational drawings of ancient existing species, keeping in mind their particular values to the local population in terms of their medicinal, spiritual and symbolic aspects. With this base, the trees are placed / drawn into landscapes that traverse from the known into the mythical, into a “Region beyond Reason”
These works seek to highlight the biodiversity as well the inherent wild mystery underlying the existence of these spaces.
Chitra also hopes to shed light on the many environmental issues and threats facing this fast diminishing landscape.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 76 x 112 cm
Image Dimensions: 76 x 112 cm
Unique Work
Unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £140.00
Chitra has been engaged with exploring the forest ecologies of the Western Ghats in South Indian for a few years now. Having grown up in this region, she travels back regularly and has a long standing connection to it passed down from her grandfather who was a forest officer in these parts.
She is particularly inspired by the 'Devakads' (Sacred Groves) found in these regions and the stories and mythologies that surround them.
Chitra also hopes to shed light on the many environmental issues and threats facing this fast diminishing landscape.
The trees in these artworks are very much rooted in observational drawings of ancient existing species, keeping in mind their particular values to the local population in terms of their medicinal, spiritual and symbolic aspects. With this base, the trees are placed / drawn into landscapes that traverse from the known into the mythical, into a “Region beyond Reason”
These works seek to highlight the biodiversity as well the inherent wild mystery underlying the existence of these spaces.
Chitra also hopes to shed light on the many environmental issues and threats facing this fast diminishing landscape.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 76 x 112 cm
Image Dimensions: 76 x 112 cm
Unique Work
Unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £140.00
Chitra has been engaged with exploring the forest ecologies of the Western Ghats in South Indian for a few years now. Having grown up in this region, she travels back regularly and has a long standing connection to it passed down from her grandfather who was a forest officer in these parts.
She is particularly inspired by the 'Devakads' (Sacred Groves) found in these regions and the stories and mythologies that surround them.
Chitra also hopes to shed light on the many environmental issues and threats facing this fast diminishing landscape.
The trees in these artworks are very much rooted in observational drawings of ancient existing species, keeping in mind their particular values to the local population in terms of their medicinal, spiritual and symbolic aspects. With this base, the trees are placed / drawn into landscapes that traverse from the known into the mythical, into a “Region beyond Reason”
These works seek to highlight the biodiversity as well the inherent wild mystery underlying the existence of these spaces.
Chitra also hopes to shed light on the many environmental issues and threats facing this fast diminishing landscape.