Inspired by the contemplative experience of gazing at the star-filled night sky, which fills me with a profound sense of oneness and expansion, I create organic mandalas that explore our connection to the cosmos, the natural world and the self.
Through the interplay of light and darkness, representing the manifest {zahir} and hidden {al Ghaib}, and the reflective qualities of chrome ink, these drawings emerge from my subconscious.
Functioning as mirrors, they create space for the viewer’s own inner universe to surface. As my subconscious is translated into visual form, a dialogue emerges between artist and observer.
The gradual addition of three-dimensional materials indicates my interest in merging the second dimension with the third, blending the abstract subconscious, unbound by space and time, with the tangible physicality of the self that exists within it.
My drawings are brought back to their basics: dots and lines. Broken glass suggests fragments of the self and echoes Rumi’s quote:
“the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth”.
Dried flowers, a material that will inevitably fade, acknowledge the passage of time, serving as a meditation on impermanence and mortality, held within the idea of memento mori.
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04, 2022
Inside The Belly Of The Beast V3 2022, The Steamship PS, London
Curated by The Art Playground_Ldn
Materials: Acrylic, Glass, Pigment Ink
©Izna Bandey
05, 2022
Materials: Dried Flowers, Glass, Acrylic, Chrome Ink
Dimensions: 210mmx29mm
Here, I am playing with textures that resemble skin and natural patterns, combined with dried flowers that will gradually fade—symbolising both immortality and the passage of time. The dots are subtle and scattered as well as the pieces of broken glass.
©Izna Bandey
Sad, 2022
Materials: Dried Flower, Glass, Acrylic, Chrome Ink
Dimensions: 210mmx29mm
Composed entirely of lines, featuring a solitary withering flower, shards of broken glass, and a partially three dimensional black acrylic backdrop.
©Izna Bandey
Amour, 2022
Materials: Acrylic, Dried Rose Bud, Pigment Ink, Chrome Ink
Dimensions: 210mmx297mm
The dried rose, symbolic of love stands as the focal point of the piece surrounded by white and chrome dots and lines.
©Izna Bandey
Untitled, 2022
Medium: Drawing
Materials: Pigment ink, acrylic, chrome ink
Dimensions Framed: 24cmx20cm
©Izna Bandey