Makeup

2013 35x45 cm Acrylic and clay on jute

Somewhere here begins the material metaphor of clay as the matter of the human body. Clay is dust, and dust you are and to dust you shall return. A human body buried in clay will merge perfectly with it after some time. Clay is a composite of all sorts of substances - organic and inorganic. Clay used for painting is difficult to fathom. Will it crack or not? Just like our body...