Jah Eye ©Shadia Alem
Jah Eye
1998-2002
Concept
This work represents, from different angles, magnified sections of an idealized eye. The eye is trying to reveal the Unseen through what is seen, to discover transparency by means of intensity, and intensity by means of transparency. In the transparency we are free to see what we can’t see with the unaided eye. The revelation is this: it is possible to free the painter, the viewer and the eye, to transfigure them into a pure idea, into something approaching the Divine.
Technique
A large scale wall installation comprising fifty-five Plexiglas sheets 79x100cm. (acrylic, ink, white glue and paper). Total 42 artworks, including 38 paintings, and 4 acrylic glass installations and five literary art books, each including 12 ink drawings.