Title: The Embrace
Year: 2023
Medium: Mixed media on canvas panel
Dimensions: 30" (H) x 20" (W)
Year: 2023
Medium: Mixed media on canvas panel
Dimensions: 30" (H) x 20" (W)
"The Embrace" is a profoundly intimate and raw artwork from Ihiri Haswani that explores the universal need for solace in times of vulnerability. Two figures are rendered in a tender embrace: a powerful symbol of human connection, self-compassion, or the feeling of being held by an ancestral spirit. The raw, sketchy quality of the piece gives it a diary-like immediacy, its agitated lines mapping a topography of both emotional and physical sensation.
Fragments of asemic writing, scribbled across the canvas, represent the internal monologue; the unspoken thoughts and prayers that accompany moments of deep introspection.
Against this backdrop of inner chaos, the embrace itself becomes a sanctuary. It is a poignant and deeply humanistic work, reminding the viewer that in our most challenging moments, the simple act of holding on, or feeling held, can be an extraordinary act of grace.
Fragments of asemic writing, scribbled across the canvas, represent the internal monologue; the unspoken thoughts and prayers that accompany moments of deep introspection.
Against this backdrop of inner chaos, the embrace itself becomes a sanctuary. It is a poignant and deeply humanistic work, reminding the viewer that in our most challenging moments, the simple act of holding on, or feeling held, can be an extraordinary act of grace.
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