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this is a singular piece of art, photographed in different angles with and against sunlight. the medium for this art is ink and water on lokta paper, made out of lokta bark. lokta paper is made from the fibrous inner bark of the Lokta plant —  Daphne papyracea or Daphne bholua — which is a shrub native to the Himalayan forests. this piece is titled, “decrypt in echo” i went with the idea of drawing without thinking about what shape, line, or word was being drawn on thin paper. using only the colors black and red, the creative nothings turned into a data imprint like representation of the mind, idly at hand. symbols, signs, words, lines, curves, shapes, scribbles, are all a part of our everyday lives metaphorically, with an intention to interpret something deeper. looking closer into the drawing, there are some directly understood writings that are hidden within. one word is written backwards, “amor,” another word is simply written, being “subtle”. there are also tallies that go beyond the amount that is usually the case - four lines with the fifth line crossed out. the meaning behind that, i intend to represent how in reference to the clock, it has five minutes in between each number on the clock, but it can feel like longer or shorter depending on what keeps you from the awareness of time passing. a tally is expected to only be four lines before you move on to the next tally, but who is to say that it is the way it’s supposed to be? with that concept in reference to time, nothing should limit you in the name of art.