{"product_id":"becoming-original-artwork","title":"BECOMING — Original Artwork","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\n\u003cspan role=\"text\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBECOMING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt first glance, the composition presents itself as an eye: large, colorful, restless, and intensely awake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dark pupil anchors the work while rings of orange, green, and blue radiate outward from it. Lines extend beyond the boundaries of the eye, almost vibrating into the space surrounding it, as though seeing were not a passive act, but something capable of creating movement beyond itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet another form is hidden within the eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurn the composition, and the brown line crossing the iris begins to resemble a \u003cstrong\u003estem\u003c\/strong\u003e. The pointed green forms surrounding it reveal themselves as a \u003cstrong\u003eleaf\u003c\/strong\u003e. What appeared to belong entirely to the anatomy of an eye becomes something organic and growing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pupil becomes a \u003cstrong\u003eseed\u003c\/strong\u003e, a point of origin surrounded by color, movement, and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this way, \u003cstrong\u003ethe eye gives birth to the leaf, and the leaf gives birth to the eye.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two forms depend upon one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe eye represents perception: looking, experiencing, noticing, and taking the world into oneself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe leaf represents what can grow from what has been seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExperience enters through the eye and reaches an interior place. There, it becomes something new: \u003cstrong\u003ea memory, an emotion, an idea, a belief, a creation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the relationship also moves in the opposite direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrowth changes perception.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat takes root within us eventually changes the person who is doing the seeing. The leaf therefore does not simply emerge from the eye. It transforms the eye that contains it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work has no single fixed orientation. Horizontally, the eye dominates while the organic form remains partially concealed. Turn the work, and the leaf begins to emerge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNothing within the artwork has changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe viewer has.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps, then, this is neither simply an eye nor a leaf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the space between \u003cstrong\u003eseeing and becoming\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause what we see gives birth to what grows within us, and \u003cstrong\u003ewhat grows within us changes the way we see.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eArtwork Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal artwork by Angelica De Jesus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil pastel on heavyweight, textured pastel paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oil pastel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSurface:\u003c\/strong\u003e Strathmore 400 Series heavyweight pastel paper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrientation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Multi-orientation artwork, designed to reveal different forms when viewed from different directions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal:\u003c\/strong\u003e One of one\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSigned:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*This is the original physical artwork. It is not a reproduction or print.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"adjatelier.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46241836859626,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/7900\/0298\/files\/3.png?v=1788720808","url":"https:\/\/adjatelier.com\/products\/becoming-original-artwork","provider":"adjatelier.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}