Life Finds a Way, 2024
Constructed from discarded aluminum cans and waste yarns, and named after a famed utterance by the renowned and fictitious mathematician Dr Ian Malcolm, Life Finds a Way serves as a visual commentary on consumerism and environmental degradation. Vinyaratn gathers materials earmarked for landfills and weaves them into something both intricate and profound, straddling visual states of stone-cold solidity and delicate fluttering. The piece draws attention to the debris that clutters our world, and challenges viewers to reconsider the undiscovered value of what we throw away.
Technique : mixed media
Size : W 210 cm x H 140 cm
Each side of the reflective surfaces of woven aluminium captures light in a way that gives the piece an enigmatic allure, balancing the urgent reality of waste and the beautiful potential for renewal. Clusters of waste yarn emerging from the metallic weave impart an organic sensation, redolent of nomadic weeds that find
purchase in the most unlikely and unwelcoming spaces,
sprouting from cracks in a vertiginous cliff face or amidst
sidewalks in concrete jungles.