Aria Nadii

A Selection of Chimerical Constructions

This body of work pays tribute to a long line of unknown and sometimes unintentional artists, those who painted the icons, the retablos, the religious vignettes, the alchemical diagrams and illuminated manuscripts, as well as the artists of India and Persia, with their delicate, stylized miniatures and motifs informed by tradition. Each piece is an artifact of the special relationship and reverence I have for the focal motif. Whether that focal point is a Hindu deity, mythical creature, allegorical scene, or chimerical construction of my own, there is a story inherent in the process through which it was made. The purpose of using such familiar and iconographic designs is that it becomes a personal language constructed of what is familiar to our collective history and mythology.

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