Description
‘Free Range’ by kEda Gomes
Artist: kEda Gomes
Title: ‘Free Range’
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions: 11.4″ x 11.4″ x 1.4″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
About the Artwork:
Dripping off the trinkets collected, melting, metamorphosizing… Whatever looks back at you in the mirror can always become something else. Becoming is a
journey, not a destination. And while it’s complex, multi-facetted, hard to pin down, it is all the more romantic and magical for it.
“Everything we’ve ever been on the way to becoming us, we still are.”
“’I wish I’d known then what I know now’? But when you got older you found out thatyou NOW wasn’t YOU then… You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now…”
― Terry Pratchett
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
kEda is inspired by the contemporary/lowbrow and pop surrealist movement, which finally “allowed” for the exploration and indulgence in other forms of artistic expression.
Apart from exploration in concepts of identity and gaining a sense of permission to associate with various cultures (of one’s birthplace), kEda is also fascinated (more like obsessed) with myths and fairy tales. They are a constant source of inspiration and Guide, helping to explain complex (modern) moral and social topics. Along with various other childhood elements such as toys and games, kEda finds that the innocence creates both a palatable and a potent dichotomy when handling everyday topics in politics, identity, and society.