Artist Spotlight: Sasha Krautman

"Artworks inspired by chess boards, landscapes, and nature by Sydney-based artist Sasha Krautman. Chess is a game filled with contrast, order, mystery, luck, and fate. For Krautman, there's a lot of symbolism to be found in one game, even in one simple black and white pattern. Her collection consists of 12 chess board-style art pieces, each bringing together 2 images that simultaneously oppose and fulfill the other."

"A woman's figure dissolves into the grid, as if memory and landscape are playing their own quiet game. The shifting squares echo thoughts half-held and half-lost.The bluebirds rise above with a whisper of wings - maybe it's a thought, maybe it's a goodbye, or just the part of her that's ready to lift off while the rest still lingers in the bittersweet nature of letting go."

Sasha Krautman creates artworks inspired by chess boards, landscapes, and nature. Chess functions as a metaphor for contrast, order, mystery, luck, and fate within the pieces. The collection contains twelve chessboard-style works that pair two images so each opposes and fulfills the other. The black-and-white grid dissolves figures into pattern, allowing memory and landscape to interweave. In "Melancholie My Friend," melancholy is treated as something to be kept close rather than escaped, with a woman's form merging into the grid while bluebirds suggest a part of the self ready to lift away amid lingering sorrow.

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