Shell
Video, 2023
About the artwork
Potato, potato
Tomato, tomato.
A shell is only such
and it contains multitudes.
And what are you,
if not a minuscule comma
inside of a shell,
That's you.
A suffix, at best.
Rotating, sliding and hanging around.
A refraction.
Can you imagine?
Being the sentence,
instead of punctuating it.
That's too much for me.
There is so much out there.
I'm gonna grow up
and be a happy comma.
Sound by Ossagrosse.
Audio explanation
Listen to Iv Solyaev discuss this work.
Iv Solyaev lives and works in Tbilisi.
He has worked in digital graphics since 2003 and has taken part in many major projects both as a concept artist and art director. His clients include Universal Pictures, HBO, Nintendo, Intel, MPC, DNEG and Adult Swim. His art has also been featured in international exhibitions. He uses a mixture of all actual kind of digital techniques to create dark, pleasing compositions woven from interpretations of natural patterns. His work focuses on the sensation of textures and inner mythologies.