Emotional Landscape of Mind

Description

Emotional Landscape of Mind 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…

Several other scientists experimented with light passing through a small hole, but it wasn’t until the 11th century that a viewing screen was used to see the inverted image. Alhazen (or Ibn al-Haytham) is said to have actually invented the camera obscura, as well as the pinhole camera which is based on the same idea. He carried out experiments with candles and described how the image is formed by rays of light travelling in straight lines. 

 ~  Istanbul

The artist developed this series 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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