Reshuffling my Art and Finding my own Style.

I decided to pause the report of my quest into the canon of the world literature because there was a similar hiatus in my exploration process back then in 2015 that actually lasted till May 20th, 2015.

Instead I’m going to expand a little bit upon how I’ve recently developed my own artist’s style or signature, which is the unique visual language that defines my work, making it instantly recognizable.

It’s a combination of elements, techniques, themes, and choices that consistently appear throughout my body of work. This signature style has been developed over time through experimentation and refinement.

My first step was to make of black pressed card board my primary choice of background for all my designs and to fit all relevant existing works that belong to the same series into a decorative frame of my own design.

I started to rework my whole oeuvre, beginning with the series A Cosmology of Civilization, a subject that has absorbed the first years of my experimentation with visual arts. It is a series that wants to connect the different phases of a civilization with a planet of our solar system, illustrating how human civilization is a process of birth, decline, and renewal. A constant dance on the thin rope between chaos and order while moving around the globe’s time-space continuum.

In the middle of this display you have Apollo, who symbolizes the Sun and order, surrounded by the other planets while involved in his eternal dance with Eris, the goddess of Chaos. On the left you have Mercury, Venus, Terra, Mars, Ceres and Jupiter. They symbolize the phases when a civilization evolves to its peak, while on the right you have Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, Charon, and Eris who stand for the declining phases of each civilization.

The second series I’ve decided to rework was actually the one that inspired me to develop my actual signature and is called Art in the Dark. In this series I want to reinterpret the different art forms from the perspective of darkness. The most stylistic characteristics of this series are that all the works feature a different art form, supported by a hyperbolic geometrical concept, and are executed upon a black background while using fluorescent paints.

Art in the Dark. From left to right Architecture .., Dancing …, Painting…, Poetry…, Sculpting…, Watchers…, Whistling … in the Dark.

I followed up on these works with a series in which I had a look at some atavistic human behavior and named this series Dark Arts.

Azrael, The Clan, The Conclave, Danse Macabre, and Fear.A new work called Symbiosis (right) and the reframing of one of my earlier works called Assimilation (left).

My latest works: Taiji Cove, The River, The Bridge.

In those last works I gave my surpressionist style a new twist with a different use of colors, shapes, and interpretation of the themes. Don’t know if those will last, but it definitively frames into my developing art style.

The design that features on top of this post is called Reflections. This canvas is a further elaboration upon an earlier work that is called The Zone. While The Zone was a rather formal investigation into color and line, this work gives a surpressionistic interpretation of the point where conscious and subconscious thinking processes confluence. It is a collection of free associations upon the metaphoric, tectonic representation of the no man’s land between the Noosphere and the individual while imposing stricter geometrical constraints upon the conception of the design.

I invite those who want to discover more about my visual works to visit my page on the Saatchi website at https://www.saatchiart.com/en-es/shaharee