CAH301: Gates of Grief


Gates of Grief (Untitled) is comprised of five large monochromatic abstract minimalist drawings. Untouchable, contained and held apart from the world by glass, edges raw and torn with colour and movement removed, there is stillness: time, thought and the everyday impulse to progress, paused. There’s nothing to know, only the fragility of paper, solid and flat geometric shapes with blurred outlines suspended before grounds of vertical and horizontal pencil line. Like the depth of our losses and the traces they leave behind, the fine lines aren’t visible from a distance and can only be seen up close.







Untitled #1
Mira Chorik
2020
86cm x 108cm
pastel and acrylic on paper



Untitled #2 
Mira Chorik
2020
84cm x 109cm
pastel and acrylic on paper



Untitled #3 
Mira Chorik
2020
87cm x 112cm
pastel and acrylic on paper



Untitled #4 
Mira Chorik
2020
112cm x 123cm
pastel and acrylic on paper



Untitled #5
Mira Chorik
2020
71cm x 99xm
pastel and acrylic on paper



The pictures were phenomenally hard to capture with my iPhone camera with all the reflections but I hope the following images give an idea of their presence in the living room...