Original artwork description:

"Connection #43 "is a clay wall sculpture created on a 20-inch round canvas. The paint I used in this sculpture is a unique, rich, and distinctive blue. It is totally flat and ultra-matte. Every sculptured element was hand-sculptured and hand-painted separately before being attached to the canvas.

What is this artwork about?

We all have our limitations.
Each of us. You name it.
We live in a mortal (healthy?) human body, a random combination of our ancestors' genes. We happened to be born in a specific country at a particular time; our race, ethnicity, and cultural background also happened to us. We can also not control thinking; it happens to us as digestion does.
Our reality is beyond our knowledge to a greater extent.
We feel it.
We are simple, imperfect, and impermanent, and we know it.
We all have the desire to be in control. We know we can control barely anything, but we still try to.
Nevertheless, because of all this, we all feel our completeness and are infinitely beautiful in our fragility and mortality.
We are in this together.
Every sculptured element in my works represents a person, and I incorporate many of them in my sculptures. So, the people in my sculptures - I want them to look similar but different. We are very much alike; our differences are overrated. I made this observation as I am a product of two nations and as a result of two immigrations I made as an adult. But we are not identical; that's why I absolutely don't want those sculptured elements to be smooth and look like they were made in mass production. I want to show their character - their texture. I want them to look rough but in a way that this rough texture emphasizes their gentleness. I want them to look fragile when, in fact, they are really hard to break. I want them to show every touch of my fingers; I create those cracks as they represent different experiences we are going through. Then, I organize them on a canvas together in a kind of dance; there is logic in the composition because, in this life, we are in this together; we are connected. Somehow. We feel it. Our reality is beyond our knowledge, BUT we feel this connection.
I use canvases instead of wooden or any other firm surfaces, and I do so to emphasize lightness, both literally and metaphorically.
Literally - because canvas weighs much less than wooden planks. Also, metaphorically - to convey the feeling that even though we are fragile, we got this; we have much strength in us, especially if we are together. We are in this together; we are connected.

I am an award-winning meta-modernist artist. I work in that sweet spot between painting and sculpture.
I have had works appear and win awards in juried art shows across the US, shown with selected galleries, including Solo and Duo Exhibits.

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original signed clay sculpture on canvas

Materials used:

Clay, acrylic paint, Easy Klein paint

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