Rashmi Talpade
Photograph by Stephen Kobasa
Untitled (Solar Disc Mosaic), 2011, paper on mat board
Here is the paradox of a monumental miniature in which each small ziggurat variation rises in increments that are the thickness of a sheet of paper, yet the scale, even so reduced, is immense. Close to them, you number the levels as they pile up in your imagination’s skyscape, each edge with its precise line of shadow. A light bulb sun moved over the piece in a rapid arc would create a small fast motion day. This is in the tradition of Piero della Francesca’s ideal city, now rendered as a perfect, uninhabited model.
Photograph by Stephen Kobasa
Still Life Two, 2010, mixed media, drawing and collage
A different complication of surfaces emerges in this mixed media drawing which could be a catalogue for a warehouse sale in some distant solar system with its confusion of objects that grow more and more unfamiliar the longer you gaze at them. All might serve either chemistry or cookery, being the sort of gadgets that an apprentice alchemist would bring home from a benign, if slightly demented, dollar store. It is a special gift of Talpade’s to couple amazement with laughter.
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