Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink - Limited Edition of 25 Print

This piece, made using coloured inks, is titled Water, Water Everywhere, nor any Drop to Drink  after the famous lines by S. T. Coleridge. The central figure consists of small pen drawings made at different times over a period of five years, while the background and borders, incorporating elements of Art Nouveau, were made only in 2014. In spite of the implied meaning,  I experienced much pleasure in working through the delicate details. What I've tried to portray here is the feeling of instability and having too much on one's plate. We may feel astonished and maddeningly joyous at all the beautiful intricacies of the world but at the same time dizzy with the variety of choices and ever present distractions- almost as if we were suffocating. Some time before this work, I'd been reading Wittgenstein's remarks on art and was struggling with its consequences. His main idea deals with the interpretation of things and how confusion may arise when an interpretation is made to correspond with an incompatible application. It seems to me, that to lead a good life, we must, first of all, strive to clean ourselves up, in the sense of identifying our confusions and realigning our views with what they are beneficial for. It is certainly as confusing to look at art with a scientific eye as it is to study science with an artistic eye. 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.