Currently Showing
The Art of Internal Cartography
It always starts with a single line, not imagined, or planed before hand. And with each line guides another, and another. My job as the artist now is to know and understand when to stop. This allows me the freedom to paint with my hands rather than my head.
Born in India, grew up along the Wasatch Front, and currently based in New Orleans contemporary artist Aisha Hamra-Pinto works primarily in acrylic & ink. Her work focuses on bold line work indicative of cartography. Her line work is often referencing topography and informational drawing while also representing the pathways in her mind.
Over the past decade Aisha has been exploring and developing the language in which she paints, inspired by the land on which we live and how humans interact with it. Throughout exploration in style Aisha has always been drawn to and inspired by the technical data we use to study the world around us, using both topography and mapping as an integral source of inspiration. Then, turning the imagined landscape on themselves and playing with gravity and how our minds interpret it. Her style is rooted in a core desire to let go of control, rather than plan and prep every step of realizing an image seen in the head.
In surrendering to this process Aisha gets the unique opportunity to see the day to day experiences, highs and lows, and subconscious thoughts spewed before her in color, line, and shape. The artwork is a juxtaposition of the pathways beneath our feet and the pathways in our mind.
It is up to the viewer
to interpret what it all means.
Her line work is often reminiscent of topography while it is representative of the pathways in her mind. These unique shapes and line work that appear in her work, as described by her, are a stepping away from control. Developing from a desire to have less control and more subconscious expression, each work begins with a single line and develops into a finished piece of art.