Ishika Kaur Kinzel

My artistic practice investigates what I see as innate universal forms. Using overarching geometries seen in plant matter, decorative arts, and microscopic imagery, I create work which considers the visual links between these shapes, and considers these overlaps as explications of a unified universe.

My concern with the connective tissue between forms serves to open dialogue around dualistic binaries; such as us/them, and conscious/non-conscious. I question what can occur if we see everything as innately connected and expressions of a whole? What would shift if we saw everything as infinitely interrelated? How would we approach others, plants, animals and the climate? Joy, empathy, connection, and reverence are states of being which I, as an artist, wish to create in my practice. Materially my work varies; projection, sculpture, engravings, eco-dye, and installation are all materials I have used. Although varied, there is a recurring visual presence, which speaks to transparency, light, shadows, and layering in my art practice. The act of layering, and working with transparency allows for objects to move beyond a singular static form. Instead of being a solitary thing, the art object can cast, project, and exist in a kind of inter-relatedness and shifting state in space.