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Ancient Futurama by Sava Larry ‘Istanbul’. Mix-Media digital collage giclee art print.
This work is part of the ‘Obscura’ series. A collection of digital collages combined with paintings by street artist ‘Istanbul’. He exhibited ‘Imago’ a solo exhibition at Joshua District Artspace in November 2023. The Obscura series is developed from his explorations of transferring his street art expressions into different fine art mediums. A chapter in a trilogy ‘Volta, Puzzled, Obscura’ a visual journal of psychological and creative transformations.
The Obscura Series dives into a visual and linguistic metaphor. All in all, there are strong plays on paradoxes present, not uncommon in Sava ‘Istanbul’ Larry’s works. Inspired by the philosophical concept of Mo Tzu. A Chinese philosopher attributed for having the first written accounts of the camera obscura.
The earliest known written account of a camera obscura was provided by a Chinese philosopher called Mo-tzu (or Mozi) in 400 BC. He noted that light from an illuminated object that passed through a pinhole into a dark room created an inverted image of the original object…
Three centuries later, in 1845, Karl Marx will use the camera obscura as a metaphor to describe how ideology works: The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men, the language of real life.
~ Istanbul
The artist developed Ancient Futurama as an analogy using the function and mechanism of camera obscura. Most importantly, this is a personal narrative that expresses the point of awakening. Finding a small window of light, even in the darkest room, creates a phenomenal inverted reflection of the world outside. Perhaps this point of light in a dark room yielding such surprises is why Mo Tzu refers to this as a ‘locked treasure room’. (ref, Photography an Art Born of Philosophy and Science).
About the Artist Sava Larry aka ‘Istanbul’, in ‘‘ article,
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