Kiran Joan created this piece during her residency at Watershed in Maine. Lady with crow becomes a playground for experimentation and a space where the inner world openly reflects and converses with the outer. During the piece’s conception Joan was between Baltimore and New York, inspiring a sense that the lady is searching for freedom, openness, and light. The piece holds the energy of exploration, change, and possibility in the shifting protagonist of crow and lady- sculpting a more harmonious path of what future relationships with nature and the self may look like.

Free Spirit

Porcelain

Connected to the idea of wanting freedom or a sense of openness and light, Free spirit  has a tangible sense of movement that imagines the observer in flight. The patterns taken from Patola Kerala’s murals originally comes from Gujurats fabric patterns, combining Joan’s past roots and future yearnings. As Patola Kerela’s murals were painted in temples, Joan’s practice is also an attempt to be closer to the higher self, god, and universe; defining her place in the world as part of a larger whole.

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