Renunciation - Limited Edition of 25 Print

While originally the work was intended to be accompanied by a poem I had then written, in thirteen sections, in the style of Ravīndranāth Ṭhākur, I shall try here to relate a precis. It was inspired by a walk one afternoon through Burgess Park, the biggest in South London, when first in my life I comprehended the proper significance of one's shadow. I saw it to be a reminder of one's mortality- of one's physical existence in the world; I found it to be a call to non-violence, 'renunciation' if taken to its extreme. As long as one exists, I realised that day, one must necessarily be able to do so only by the aid of at least some form of violence; "'whomsoever I should stand in front of', my shadow said to me, 'of the sun I should deprive'." The original not being on sale, high quality giclée prints are available on archival 310 GSM Hahnemühle paper, 1:1; printed using archival inks, these prints will last one a lifetime. Though, really, it does not make much sense in limiting the number of editions of a digital print, as I also indeed wish to control what aspects of quality I can (by way of supervising printing myself, and thereby being excluded from being able to sell open edition on Saatchi), I have decided to limit them to 25. As regards the costing rationale: having attempted selling my prints, previously, at their cost prices themselves, and having left the evaluation of my labour upon my customers to decide- and consequently, not having been able to make ends meet, I have decided, for the first time, to set a fixed profit for myself, in keeping with current practice. Wishing to remain entirely honest however, I must add that it costs me ₹475 per square foot to have the print printed, and ₹100 to have the original scanned, besides which packaging can be accounted for by adding another ₹1000. Entirely unable myself to set a price upon my work, I have chosen what I've seen on Saatchi itself being set for other similarly sized prints (choosing to remain still on the more reasonable side of things). It is for me, really, I must admit, an experiment, this.

Printmaking:Graphite on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:25

Size:14.8 W x 22 H x 0 D in

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