Neerja Palisetty | Empheral to Tangible | Hand-woven newspaper-Installation | 48 x 15 x 15 Inches

Ephemeral to Tangible

Art and Design on the contemporary front have a new role to perceive and preserve the existing in a new light, especially in the context of the material and resources.  

Materials have always played a key role in defining the forms of art, and artists have always worked with them to transcend their natural forms, creating intangible essences.

Here too, in the forms of eternal light, we see this process of the material's transformation, leaving its ephemeral nature behind in favour of a form of strength.

I connect this process of the transformation of the material to a very philosophical context. Looking at it as the circle of life, where karma defines the existence of the soul in this eternal world and thus the process of creating a tangible from the ephemeral, where in the trash of paper is reborn into usable forms.....