Sasha Krautman – Boooooom! – Create *inspiring *community *art*design *music *movie *photo*project

Artwork inspired by Sydney artist Sasha Krautman by the chess board, landscape and nature. Chess is a game full of contrast, order, mystery, luck and destiny. For Krautman, even a simple black and white pattern has many symbolic meanings. Her collection includes 12 chess board-style artworks, each of which brings together two images that oppose and realize the other simultaneously. For example, in “My Friends of Depression”, Krautman reflects on depression, not something to escape, but something to keep close:

“A woman’s figure dissolves into the grid, as if memory and landscape are playing their own quiet game. The shifting squares echo thoughts half-held and half-lost.The bluebirds rise above with a whisper of wings — maybe it’s a goodbye, or just the part of her that’s ready to lift off while the rest still lingers in the bittersweet nature of letting go.”