Artist: Rashidah Salam
Title: Olives Landscape
Medium: Alpaca yarns, colored plastic microbeads and acrylic paints on canvas
Date: 2025
Dimensions: 36” (H) x 16” (W) x 1” (D)
Descriptions:
The Olives Landscape painting depicted the level of a hierarchy of a landscape: land, river, mountain and sky. Repeated symmetry olive trees and the leaves branches in the painting to create a series implied shapes of a heart as a symbol of love and hope. The batik patterns using Magnolia and Ashoka flowers motifs were subtly incorporated into the pattern design. The olive leaves and magnolias were embellished with shiny colored plastic microbeads. The colors of the microbeads mimicked the colors painted on the flowers. Selected patterns were raised for the tactile textures, a series of cut-out layers of thin papers were glued on the patterns. Hand drawn alpaca yarns to create Ashoka flowers patterns were added as a finished touch wrapped on the embellished patterns as a metaphor of protection.
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