The Passage, 2011
Treated animal bones, wooden boat, polyurethane
36 x 192 x 36 inches
Shivan uses a highly personal and innovative artistic language. In The Passage, the structure is precariously positioned like a vertical gash slicing into the cavernous space of the gallery - evocative of the transient space between being, non-being and coming into being. This imaginative quality with its images born of dreams, daydreams, subliminal perceptions and psychological drama, exists in a shadowy realm of its own, exuding the visual and palpable presence of forces of nature, provoking greater thought than the usual still life.