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Sketchbook Interpretations VI

16/5/2021

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Continuing to work on sketches from my sketchbook (Charcoal and pastel on packaging material). Here again from the repeating triangle series. This is a small work operating in "metaphoric space".
I have collected a lot of grounds for my works and may not buy canvases for some time. My next series will be again on burlap collected from discarded packaging material.
The challenge now is scaling up these small works to find the right proportions invoking an actual spatiality! 
​Much light!
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Constructive, Rational and Intuitive

21/2/2021

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In my search for the expression and visualisation of the tautology between chaos and order, I revisited the works of Paul Klee.
In his works I find an emotional and intuitive expression of the constructed and the rational. In this weeks exploration, I present to you a sketch of my next planned series on Chaos and Order (Water colour, ink and markers on paper 8.5 x 8.5 cm approx.).
​Much light!
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Chaos and Order

14/2/2021

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I am posting for the first time in this New Year 2021. The last weeks have been a time for contemplation and introspection for me.
Chaos and order are to me paradoxical: while we sleep, our body systems function in a perfectly orderly manner, while our subconsciousness allows us to wander rather chaotically in a mysterious world that seems so real while we sleep and dream. And when we awake we are back in our chaotic "reality" which our conscious mind then tries to order. It has to do with the workings of the human mind that strives to find meaning in randomness. 
Chaos and order are mutually resistant worlds and an artist, to put it in Heidegger's words, reveals this tautology from its concealment into transformation. A painting or a sketch visualises this duality or polarity in its dynamic continuum.
There is no denying the interconnectedness and the interactions of chaos and order: Coincidentia Oppositorium, the one cannot exist without the other. 
​Much light!


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Mark making on Khadi

20/12/2020

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For my next planned series of work, my sketches from my sketch book remain an inspiration. 
​I choose to change the ground and plan to use Khadi for my next series.
The coarse hand woven material / fabric is known in India for the role it played in India's Freedom Movement. Mahatma Gandhi took to weaving and wearing this fabric in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, about a hundred years ago.
The Swadeshi Movement urged Indians to boycott British machine spun textiles and take to wearing clothes made from hand spun cotton. Eventually it became a symbol for India's fight for Freedom from British Rule.
With this small anecdote I would like to take leave from you for my Christmas Break. What an eventful year this has been. For many more lows than highs. 
Praying that 2021 brings us freedom from Corona.
Wishing everyone happiness, joy and abundance! Season's Greetings and a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021! Much light!
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The message of the medium

6/12/2020

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In my last post I mentioned something about the means of communication available to artists. The medium used for the art work could be one of those means.
I chose to work on jute / burlap for my present series and started to collect them from coffee places that were discarding them.
Jute / burlap is manufactured in countries like India and Bangladesh, from the jute plant. The fibres are natural, biodegradable and very sturdy. The woven jute fibre is then used to make bags to transport agricultural produce across the globe. The bags I collected had travelled thousand of kilometres, before they reached me in my atelier. By using them to paint on and allowing them to have a voice of their own, they not only had a new lease of life, but also a voice to tell their story.
It is also our own story, a story that many of us are part of.
For my next series of works, I plan to use Khadi. More about it, in my next post!
Much light!
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Communication using Repetition and Patterns

29/11/2020

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I am posting here after a gap of 4 weeks. I have been happily busy during this time and have a chance to look back my work with a little distance.
My work is conceptual. In this past year I used repeating angles, geometric shapes and I am able now to perceive a pattern. 
In today's post I show you a page from my sketch book, where I have just used repeating lines: consequent, straight, hand drawn. There is a rhythmic pattern that emerges, almost like a bar code. 
A bar code is used to communicate, classify, store information.
My sketch, in this case, just pretends to be that: a simulacrum.
One can actually communicate using other means available to an artist: the instruments used, the ground, the colours, the forms one uses.
More about that in my next post!
Much light! 
​Stay safe, stay healthy!
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    Aruna Samivelu

    I am an artist. I live and work in Berlin.
    I started to paint colour fields (very much inspired by Mark Rothko and other American Abstract Expressionists) and now have evolved into an admirer of the Bauhaus Movement. I am still  a seeker: minimalist concrete art finds resonance in me, while the rich colours and traditional art forms of my home country that flow in me and breathe in me, also find expression in my work.
    My work, I believe is a synthesis of all these influences and seeming contradictions. I am now knocking a dent into concrete art, non objectively so to speak! I work serially and can endlessly look for emerging patterns in my work.
    This has been a wonderful journey, and as they say: the path is the destination.
    ​In my blog posts, I am letting you have a peek over my shoulder, into my sketch books and small works, which will someday flow into my big canvases and other works; works that I will actually display or exhibit (or may be not).
    My blog posts are more about my process and what motivates me to paint and create. 

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