Self Portrait: Here and There and Almost Everywhere - Limited Edition of 25 Print

This, Self Portrait: Here and There and almost Everywhere, was the centrepiece of the exhibit The Classwork Series. Made in pencil on canvas, it was started at a time when I had absolutely no intentions of becoming an artist. Every evening, I would work on a little portion, relieving some of the stored up tension from the day. The subjects revolve around mathematics, physics, books I was reading at the time, views through windows, and private dilemmas- it could almost be considered a visual diary for the years 2009-13. I began work on it when I had decided to abandon whatever I was being taught at university and focus instead entirely on independent studies, but was getting angrier at what I was forced to endure still in the classroom. I became interested in a lot of things then, and there came a period when if left alone, could generate problem after problem on any given topic. The difference between what was being taught and what I was learning gradually became too large to be bearable. After many tearful nights, I mustered up enough courage to accept myself for what I was. The general argument against a life based on more than one talent is that life is too short to accomplish anything significant this way. I argued- is it not good that life is too short?- I will never have time to get bored. At which point, I decided to grow out my hair and not give a damn. 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 Canvas

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:25

Size:15.7 W x 12 H x 0 D in

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