Progress of an artwork - "HKH" - A multi-dimensional piece about Life & Death

Lifecycles

This "painting" I am showing you today is one of my few 3-dimensional works I did when I was a student of Architecture more than 10 years ago. I produced this one in the beautiful project/lab 'city' of Arcosanti in the high desert of Arizona. The awesome and ancient landscape around me inspired me to work on several profound pieces within a period of a year.

This one here is about the neverending cycle of life & death and portraits some kind of demon, representing this eternal principle of the universe. It began like a puzzle with so many different pieces coming together. I used almost everything I could find or build around me to fill the empty wood frame. I hope you enkoy the progress pics...I had to dig deep to find them...:-)

 

"It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again."

ralph waldo emerson 

Laying down the first elements of the painting

I used clay and fimo for the 3-D forms

Some elements are printed on foil

A puzzle without a template...

...but it got solved after 3 months of work

Detail of the finished piece

At the end I poured several layers of resin on the piece

The effect in direct sunlight

"Holographic Krsna Holocast" | mixed media | 80cm x 120cm

 

"Life asked death, 'Why do people love me but hate you?' Death responded, 'Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth."

unknown 

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