Shyra DeSouza, visual Artist
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Labyrinth of the Eternal Archetype, installation, 2011

Materials:  Found objects, found materials, acrylic paint, spray paint, ribbon, miniature grass, glue, epoxy, hardware.
Process:  constructed installation.
Exhibited: The New Gallery, Plus15 Project Window (Calgary, AB), 2011, Art Souterrain (Montreal, QC), 2013, Visual Arts Alberta CARFAC Gallery (Edmonton), 2014.
Media: Avenue Magazine, Art Souterrain, Les Beautes De Montreal, V2com.biz, Detail Daily.

Old canons collapse and continually fold into themselves like a fractal that repeatedly feeds the remainder back into the equation, with their forms repeatedly reinterpreted; context has become content.  Objects of status often rely on forms related to a system of classical rationality, but leave us without personal meaning.  Mysticism and pseudo-science fills the space where knowledge ends and the personal begins, creating a space that is both intimate and impersonal.  Exploring the symbolic and emotional connections between people and objects, I wish to present an open-ended narrative where sensual and rational experience intersects.   This work embodies the utopic melancholy induced by the continual disconnection between form and meaning.