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HORMAZD G NARIELWALLA

London, United Kingdom

My art practice looks at how Savile Row bespoke tailoring patterns of customers who are long dead can be viewed as beautiful drawings in their own right. As drawings they are abstract shapes of the...

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Accompanying the three-dimensional skulls is a parallel series of two-dimensional collages. Each three-dimensional skull is cut from a dead man’s pattern, leaving precious remains of the artist's imprint. The artist uses the remains, the absence of the skull, to make a two dimensional collage revealing a silhouette of the skull in negative space. The artworks are created on black mount boards.

Created January 29, 2012
Posted February 5, 2012
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bespoke, death, skull, negative space, tailoring patterns, brown paper, memento-mori, 2-dimension

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Dead Man's Patterns - Memento Mori skull artwork 5

HORMAZD G NARIELWALLA

United Kingdom

Assemblage / Collage
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$230

Size: 33 x 23 in
Materials: Paper
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