Shine Shivan

Shine Shivans new works are invested with characteristic elemental and primordial dynamism of which the material itself is the essence. Shivan works with a variety of commonplace and natural materials such as deer feces, chirchita seeds, animal bones, quail eggs, human hair, bird feathers and thread. Through the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated articles, he creates astonishing imagery and poem-objects, as compelling as the chance encounter of quail eggs on a babul tree. These works do not rely exclusively on the crutches of externally generated meaning and by their very nature typify unconscious creative forces.