Exploring Grandma Earth's Viscera & Glands
& Occasionally Squeezing Them Dry
Mixed Media (see Ingredients below), 120 x 80cm. 2009.
Private Collection
| A Glimpse of Artwork Verbosity (Clockwise from top left) | |
|---|---|
| Texts, images or scenes displayed | Ingredients |
| Of a legendary island of Cloves Of book-less face-less Slaves in endless rows Crammed in mercantile ships And perched on Dhows |
Cloves |
| White & Black Pepper That drove the exploration forward ... | Black & White Pepper |
| And that would blossom into: Indentured Labor, Monocultures, Plantation Monoliths, Deforestation, Ocean Plunder, Rural Degradation and Exodus and the ultimate paradise on Earth ... The urban wage worker's cemented prison of busy schedules and congested ugly smoggy highways enhanced with the opium of Mass Media Entertainment, Thrillers, Murders, Rapes and Celebrity Scandals directly proportional to the ignorance of and callousness toward the immediate surroundings, family, community and the biotope, imbued however with a hope of a reprise during the one month of vacations. And that once again accelerated the demise of the remaining natives supplied with cheap alcohol but would strangely blossom yet again into (hopefully) heartfelt apologies from the heads of the modern states! | Sugar Tea Coca Coffee Tobacco |
| Glimpses of Hell on Earth But with a silver lining | Volcano painted in acrylic basalt, slate, colored sand and decorated with a silver lining |
| From Rhea Inspired Artwork Title | Text printed on HP Printer. The modern ink is coated with a fixative, impregnated and UV-protected _ should last at least for a few decades, even if that is something rather out of tune with our times! |
| Primitive Graffiti Mission Mortal Toward Immortality | Initial attempts at Immortality reproduced in acrylic by Mushtaq Bhat who, if not for the Muses would probably also be suffering from this syndrome. However I did occasionally scribble my name in dark caves and temple precincts during school excursions. |
| Ur-Grandpa´s Neolithic Grave | Picture of a Neolithic grave, also UV-Protection coated. Source National Geographic. |
| Stone Age Technology | Rather drastically stylized Neolithic Tools in Acrylic and some copper pigments |
| Real Hi-Tech! | Picture of an Aquanaut in Ocean Depths. Cave Divers Also UV-protected. Source National Geographic. Flyover made in acrylic and slate. |
| Staple Diets | Wild Rice, Basmati, Noodles and Lentils cooked in Latex! |
| Grandma's Glandular Gems | Metamorphic Rocks |
| Her gifts and her grand children's toys and modified accessories | Stone, Wood, Iron, Bronze (acrylic pigments), Copper, Silver, Gold, Wheat (flour) ...and of course the Salt of the Earth. |
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