Spring Gallery 2019
| by Jamie Turner
Selections from the artworks uploaded on Emergent Art Space in the Spring 2019

Nazar Na Lage
Ceramic and glass
Kolkata, India
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My work deals with superstition and the darker side of society. I try to bring out the dilemma and confused state of mind of a common man in the society, who has no other option but to let himself get into this quicksand of superstition, where fear leads to corruption.

Can You See Me
Photography
Lusaka , Zambia
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Everything is Fine (?)
Watercolor, tea strain and smoke on fabriano paper
Kolkata, India
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This work is a dark humor about my surroundings society and politics. Where an ambiguity works as a metaphor of social discremination. Where everyone knows about the consequences, even then we have to do the same thing repeatedly because we don't have any other choices. Where the destruction becomes a game for someone else, and where nothing is obvious. Still we are acting to keep ourselves well with certain materialistic needs.
From here on, this painting says that everything is fine , But really everything is fine?

SEPULCHRE IV
Glass etching and print on fine art paper
New Delhi, India
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In 2008 I was an eyewitness to a serial blast in my hometown of Agartala, India.
Here I am trying to cover up the scars made in the name of terrorism or any other agenda. I am
simply sowing flowers as a condolence.

SEPULCHRE V
Glass etching and print on fine art paper
New Delhi, India
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In 2008 I was an eyewitness to a serial blast in my hometown of Agartala, India.
Here I am trying to cover up the scars made in the name of terrorism or any other agenda. I am
simply sowing flowers as a condolence.

Supremacy
Acrylic on canvas and plywood
New Delhi, India
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Supremacy is one of my earlier interventions of the thought Land-Escape, this was produced during Cycle 1, Piramal Art Residency in Thane, Maharashtra. In this work, I tried to depict the human supremacy on nature using the Vitruvian Man as a metaphor to mankind while questioning its legacy. Background canvas is a representation of local landscape and a plywood cut-out of the Vitruvian Man painted with local architecture, displayed as the figure is coming out of the land and building its own territory.

Departure
Acrylic on cloth, paper board pasted on canvas and plywood
New Delhi, India
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Influenced by Paul Gauguin’s “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” I am exploring and trying to depict the contemporary time which always talks about moving to another orbit. Portraying the landscape in a metaphorical approach to represent the consequence of progress which instead of taking care we are moving out of that part. The centre figure of the painting is a cut-out of the same posture of as Gauguin’s which presents the connection between man & nature but in my image, it is so absurd to fill the gap which is intentional.

Ascension
Photography
Oakland, United States
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Artist: @visual_lit
Title: Ascension
Medium: Photography
Model: Jenné Afiya @left_thigh
Quote: “You can have powers all day, many of us have powers, most of us have a power whether that is the gift of being able to be clairvoyant, hearing spirits, most people do, they ignore that or they use them to manipulate people that’s just big facts. Use your power wisely. “- Jenné Afiya
Description: check out @visual_lit ‘s blog for the full story and if you aren’t already following please follow @sugarwater_gallery

Mystical
Photography
Oakland, United States
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Artist: @visual_lit
Title: Mystical
Medium: Photography
Model: Jenné Afiya
Date: 2018
Description: This is the first part of a series of conversations with women of color and their transformational healing practices. The series located within @visual_lit ‘s blog space.

Sonajhuri Landscape
Ink on paper
Kolkata, India
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I want to show the different view of Sonajhuri forest in Shantiniketan in tiers.

Sonajhuri Landscape
Paper cut
Kolkata, India
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With the help of color paper strips, I want to show the vertical growth of the eucalyptus trees of the Sonajhuri forest and also try to show the vast area of the forest.
Thank you to all the artists
who uploaded their art this Spring!