For The Love of Truth | Zara Jethani
Exploring life and truth in the context of motherhood, nature and the world
October 12, 2019 - It is with great pleasure that I present For the Love of Truth, my first solo art show. These pieces were created over the span of a year and a half, and represent personal cycles, joys and responsibilities of parenthood, and choices that we can make against the backdrop of the unpredictable world in which we live. My hope is that these themes will inspire, move and resonate with you. Please enjoy!
For more information contact me at zara@laasyadesign.com.
SHOW DATES: OCTOBER 12 - NOVEMBER 10, 2019
1 For The Love Of Truth
Framed Dimensions 8"x12"
Ballpoint pen & silver ink on paper
In the thorns of life, a mama will do anything for her young, even send them away.
$225 SOLD
2 A Temporary Madness
Framed Dimensions 8"x12"
Ballpoint pen & silver ink on paper
The song of the Sirens is deadly and enchanting. On his sea voyage home, Odysseus experienced the insanity of obsession but was prepared for this fatal temptation.
$185 SOLD
3 Heaviness of a Broken Heart
Framed Dimensions 5"x7"
Ballpoint pen, color pencil, gold ink on paper
$85 SOLD
4 Coming Up For Air
Framed Dimensions 5"x7"
Ballpoint pen, color pencil, gold ink on paper
$85 SOLD
5 Raven I
Framed Dimensions: 16"x22"
Charcoal on watercolor paper
There are times when despair pulls you down. The raven began appearing with this piece. It can symbolize life magic, mystery of creation, personal transformation, fearlessness, and adaptability. The extreme crowding here creates claustrophobic tension and a longing for release.
$450 SOLD
6 Raven II
Framed Dimensions: 16"x22"
Charcoal on watercolor paper
Determination is on the other side of despair. A change in perspective can reframe the mind, taking the same elements of sad desperation, transforming them into hope. The confined space in this piece serves as the launching place to triumph.
$450 SOLD
7 Tangerine
Framed Dimensions 10"x10"
Color pencil on wood board
Measuring a summer’s day / Only find it slips away ... Tangerine, tangerine, living reflections of a dream... Robert Plant would sometimes introduce this at concerts by saying: “This song is for our families and friends and people we’ve been close to. It’s a song of love at its most innocent stages.”
$135 SOLD
8 How Fragile We Are
Framed Dimensions 14.5"x17.25"
Oil on canvas
My late father’s favorite flower, the peony is considered a potent symbol of beauty, fragility and the fleeting nature of existence. Inspired by renaissance chiaroscuro - the effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on an object.
$275 SOLD
9 Vanilla Owlet
Dimensions 16.25"x16.25"
Acrylic, gold pen, gold holograph glitter on canvas
$375
10 Chocolate Owlet
Dimensions 16.25"x16.25"
Acrylic, gold pen, gold holograph glitter on canvas
$375
11 Shiva's Storm
Dimensions: 24"x46"x4"
Newspaper collage, acrylic on cardboard box with custom internal wood frame
You can acknowledge what is around you and still create something beautiful and divine. The Shiva lingam is a short cylindrical pillar-like symbol made of stone, here adorned with three sacred ash stripes and red turmeric called kumkum. Shiva’s role is to destroy the universe in order to re-create it. He embodies the extreme opposites of destruction and calm.
$650
12 Because & Despite
Dimensions: 24"x46"x4"
Newspaper collage, acrylic on cardboard box with custom internal wood frame
You can still create something beautiful from, because of and despite of what is around you. Created on a recycled cardboard box covered in newspaper stories of the world. However much I try to avoid the news, it is because of it that this piece was born.
$650
13 Paper Rose
Framed Dimensions 10"x10"
Collage and acrylic on wood board
An experimental piece that grew from a sandpapered newspaper background and the juxtaposition of different monochromatic papers and textures.
$175 GIFT
14 Lotus Rising
Framed Dimensions 10"x10"
Color pencil on paper mounted on wood board
A celebration of my beautiful mother. A lotus rises up from muddy waters to bless the world with its flower. It is associated with purity, beauty, fertility, prosperity, spirituality, and eternity.
$175 SOLD
15 A Mama's Love
Framed Dimensions 12"x14"
Charcoal and guache on heavy paper
My love is in my children so that they may carry it in their hearts and minds throughout their lives.
$110 SOLD
16 Delta
Dimensions 12"x15"
Mixed media sculpture with vintage 1949 calculus book, silver leaf, shells, dried leaves, beads and semiprecious stone
From the enormous planets and stars to the smallest particles and cells, almost all things are constantly in motion. Calculus describes change across time and space and here serves as the anchor around which precious matter transforms from one state to another. The dragonfly symbolizes change, transformation, adaptability, and self-realization. Also, the song.
$175 SOLD
17 Calling Me Back
Framed Dimensions 15"x15"
Color pencil on paper
Perspective study of time and space. There is a comfort, quiet and stillness of the past that grounds me, but the unpredictable future ebbs and flows into the present. The broom shrub on the landing is for my sister, Leela.
$275
18 Crane & Koi
Framed Dimensions 16.5"x18.5"
Guache and color pencil on watercolor paper
A bird may love a fish, but where will they live? Somewhere beautiful and extraordinary. A radial composition study.
$275
19 My Way Home
Framed Dimensions 18.5"x22.5"
Acrylic on canvas
I fell in love with the sea long ago. I suppose it is fitting then that my husband’s name, Sagar, means ocean.
$275
20 Friends
Framed Dimensions 16.5"x18.5"
Guache, watercolor and color pencil on watercolor paper
In my garden, there’s a bougainvilla that a dear friend gave me. Over the years it has grown and become stronger. When I see it, I think of those who lift me up and make life gorgeous. The title is borrowed from one of husband’s instrumental compositions.
$225 SOLD
21 Birth Of The Universe
Framed Dimensions 16.5"x18.5"
Watercolor and color pencil on paper
The essence of pure love and innocence at birth. The watercolor overlay is the same as in Friends and represents the strength that beautiful relationships bring to our lives.
$275
22 My Devotional Dance
Framed Dimensions 16.5"x18.5"
Color pencil on paper
Laasya is the graceful, female devotional dance of Goddess Parvati in response to Lord Shiva’s male cosmic dance. It is said that their love dance created the world. My graphics company Laasya Design, was created as my devotion to the universe. This piece came in a meditation.
$275 GIFT
23 Hawk
Framed Dimensions 18.5"x22.5"
Acrylic, ink, paper on canvas
Symbolizing the power of vision and intuition in our daily lives, the hawk can represent wisdom by seeing situations from a higher perspective, the power of observation, and focus. As the hawk soars, it raises my spirit bringing hope and clarity.
$325 GIFT
24 Rooster
Framed Dimensions 18.5"x22.5"
Acrylic, ink, paper on canvas
The rooster salutes the sun each morning with its call as a symbol of victory over the darkness of the previous night. To me it represents the many chances we have to start anew.
$325
25 Marigold Mirror
Dimensions: 25”x25”
Acrylic, gold pen, gold holograph glitter paint, beads on vintage handmade mirror
Marigolds remind me of India and represent the sun, passion and creativity. They are often associated with weddings depicting beauty and can be thought of as symbols of a new beginning for the married couple.
$375 SOLD
26 Strawberry Pink Villa | Achilles And The Tortoise Hills
Dimensions 13.25”x15.25”
Acrylic on canvas paper, on metal faux candle house; vintage frame
Acrylic on canvas paper, on metal faux candle house; vintage frame
A nostalgic tribute. Inspired by my favorite book My Family and Other Animals, where a mother attempted to create an idyllic childhood in Corfu for her children. Achilles was a happy, young tortoise, used in this piece to slow down time.
$295
27 Daffodil Yellow Villa | Ulysses Over The Ionian Sea
Dimensions 13.25”x15.25”
Acrylic on canvas paper, on metal faux candle house; vintage frame
Acrylic on canvas paper, on metal faux candle house; vintage frame
Inspired by My Family and Other Animals, a story set on the enchanted Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s, where an English family lived an eccentric and free life for a few years. Ulysses, a soft-winged owl floats like “grey ash” over the Ionian Sea, here representing the ephemeral nature of life. Lemons are my children’s favorite.
$295 SOLD
