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Experiment II: Coffee & Time Experiments Painting
Oman
Painting, Coffee on Canvas
Size: 23.6 W x 31.4 H x 0.5 D in
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About The Artwork
Coffee and Time Experiments started because of my engineering background where everything we did was an experiment. I studied Human Behavior in Stressful Environments as a part of my master’s thesis and through these 'Coffee and Time Experiments' I explore the parallels of environment and human fragility mimicking Pearson's correlation coefficient. Pearson's correlation coefficient is a statistic that measures linear correlation between two variables. There are two types of variables - continuous (that which would take forever to define/count. Eg Time or Environment in my case) and discreet (which can be quantified but might take a long time to do so - in my case human fragility and behavior). The results of experiments run by statisticians to compare these two ambiguous variables always ends in a scatter plot on a graph. I try to draw parallels to such experiments through my paintings. Drying times for different kinds of coffee vary hugely. I dry them in layers, and introduce new elements or more coffee with each layer until I feel my thoughts are transposed on the canvas. Climatic conditions affect the final painting differently - from harsh sunlight to the layers being dried in complete darkness for long periods of time. From a dry room to simulating a humid area for the layers to dry - I experiment with multiple variables. 'Experiment II' is about how you find fellow beings in the most unexpected places, match your fragility and create a bond. ‘Experiment II’ was created using coffee grounds on canvas over a period of 2 months. I used principles of cold brewing in this painting – only my canvas is the carafe. I let the coffee grounds bleed directly on the canvas. A new element – salt was introduced during timed intervals to direct the flow of coffee whilst it was bleeding. Jackson Pollock's work has wildly fascinated me for a long time now. You can call this painting an ode to his work.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Coffee on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:23.6 W x 31.4 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Brown
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Throughout my work, I investigate coffee as a medium through various ways such as brewing methods, experimenting with drying times, and exposing it to the elements. Coffee as a medium affords me a multitude of technical variables and a set of connotative variables. I mix these variables with the social connotations coffee holds in our modern day society, to explore the parallels of human fragility and emotions to the evolution of current times and the passing of time. The way coffee moves on canvas holds an air of randomness, I have no definitive control on what the final outcome will be but I am able to add variables along the way to influence where I want it to go. Like human behavior, my work is largely based in the abstract but I am able to guide the canvas by adding different variables in the making. Each painting takes anywhere between a month to 2 years to complete, and 10 to 120 layers of coffee. It’s a drink that changes through different cultures, a drink that’s come to represent so much more than itself; & it’s only fitting that coffee is used here in my study of human behavior. Its chaos but it’s also structure, this juxtaposition mirroring the contradiction of trying to map out something so undeniably organic like human behavior through a scientific lens can only be defined as Quantified Chaos.
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