oil on canvas
40 x 30 inches
Website: n/a
Instagram: @_mandaarruda
About | In an overwhelmingly uncertain world, the walls we build around ourselves have become havens. They stretch down pathless hallways, quietly perceptive to the passing of time. They are stoic structures that shelter our bodies, our thoughts, and our memories. A quiet room has the uncanny ability to allow one to curl into themselves; to enter a world of inner thought and reflection. Our inner experiences are rich, but, like a room with a closed door, our thoughts and reveries are naturally internalized. It is my instinct that, “…we must also give an exterior destiny to the interior being (Bachelard, The Poetics of Space).”
This work expresses the inner experience of an individual, the essence of memory, and passing of time through the development of space. Windows are visual and metaphorical thresholds, allowing the external world to shine through, illuminating even the deepest corners of an interior space. From a sheltered vantage point, an inner being can peer out into a surrounding expanse. There is a striking contrast between an exterior experience of the world and an interior one; of a life lived loudly, and of one lived softly. And so, the representation of space becomes psychological rather than literal.
$1,381.25