Senna, conceived specifically for “The Beginning of Thinking is Geometric” exhibition at Maraya Art Centre in 2013, is a temporal spatial construct that purposefully juxtaposes two opposing geometric attitudes, the organic, in the form of senna pods, and the synthetic in the form of a symmetrical concentric form.

Dry senna pods, scavenged from the side of the road, are persuaded to become more useable by saturating them with water. This allows them to be inserted into the ribs making the co behaviorally volatile materials are given a new opportunity to self-compute through their negotiation with synthetically structured and stable geometries. This creates a dynamic dialogue between the precise and the wavering, the patterned and the textured.

Spatially, the temporal construct questions its geometric condition as a surface and provokes a novel understanding of porosity and thickness.

Installations + Public Art

Senna

Commissioner: Maraya Art Centre
Curator: Sara Raza
Location: Sharjah, UAE
Date: 2013
With Mobius Design Studio