Artwork by Aberjhani along with books by him will be available for purchase as part of his participation in Local Author Day on March 24, 2024, in Lafayette Square in the city of Savannah, Georgia (USA). Much of the artwork on display for the event will reflect themes explored in his books on Savannah.
"Growing Where Life Puts Us" employs Postered Chromatic Poetics' signature processing to fuse original digital color photography with black and white photography to compose a singular visual statement on one of the great themes of 21st century history: displacement and adaptation. The inlaid black and white of hanging vines both extend the narrative of the color photograph and refine its context. This art photography functions well as a beautiful addition to a home or office space. It makes an effective attention-holder for classes devoted to studies of the environment and global warming. To see the print please click the link at the bottom of the page or paste this one: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/growing-where-life-puts-us-aberjhani.html
The work may be purchased at 30 percent off from now until December 31, 2018, using Promo Code HSPRXZ.
FROM THE ART PRODUCT PAGE:
This composite photograph, "Growing Where Life Puts Us," is the first official entry in a series of images celebrating life's capacity for sustaining and perpetuating itself under less-than-ideal conditions. The center image shows the beginning of a shrub growing between the edge of a yard and a sidewalk separated by a thick heavy wooden beam. The different earth tones with the splash of sunlight and green of the plant itself makes a kind of natural art all its own. The color photograph sits inside a black and digital print of leafy vines growing over the edge of an abandoned building.
The theme for this new series came from one of my favorite novels, "The Famished Road" by Nigerian author Ben Okri. In the novel, a father directs his son's attention to a wooden pole which someone stuck in the ground and which for some unknown reason has begun to blossom. The father tells his son, "This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down." During my treks through southern urban centers in America, I noticed how efficiently certain plants demonstrated this advice by adapting to whatever cracks or surfaces were available to them in order to put down roots and grow where they were.
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