Devanand Pancham

Contact:davepancham13@gmail.com

ARTIST STATEMENT

If there were a theme to my work, the phrase “Memento Mori” (remember you will die) would be it. For most of my teenage years, I was occupied by reading gothic fiction to the likes of Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Love Peacock and Emily Bronte.

I seemed to be obsessed with photographing the things that fascinated me most, removing colour and hyping contrast to capture the drama I saw. I found a sense of fulfilment  in my pictures particularly those of the landscape which seemed disturbing to me.

Prior to the influence of Tim Burton and the sculptures of Giacometti, my photographs framed of a world of abandoned items, the forgotten, the unwanted, solitude, life, death and the dust that’s left behind.

In my current body of work, I find new worlds and galaxies through abstractions of form in everyday objects. These are the things that help me escape a world of chaos and decay.

 


For Shiva


Fungi

 


Avocado

 

 

 

 

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