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This work displays the pixelization of a figure enchained in a neck to waist binding of iron links, rotating back and forth, struggling for freedom from the serpentine confine which supply imprisons him. A direct allegorical reference to the Master Illusionist and Escape artist, Harry Houdini-a modern Fakir of the 20th century-,yet, on this occasion, his symbolic shadow cannot escape from the cyclic grasp of the sequenced movement nor the actual iron chains which impede freedom of movement and actual liberty. Pixelization of colour highly contrasts the black panel which enshrouds the tortured figure, the technological hue furthermore in contrast with the warmth of the teak frame which acts as a carriage to the laborious Promethean cycle of a pending and perpetually failing liberty from condemnation. The artwork carries subliminal impact as the theme of confinement, incarceration, individual or collective persecution due to the machinations of society bears transnational sympathies and echoes predominant trends in literary and visual creations of the past century of an industrialized world.. The diffusion of similar content via publicly accessible medium such as the web, journals and tele-visual media are prolific and short lived, the representation of an intimate depiction of individual sufferance co-relates the omnipresence and enduring paradoxes of an international gradual progression towards greater freedoms and the evident recurrence of persecution, whether elect of the self, imagined or real. [Rajath Suri] |