‘Trying to get out of a box.’ KAVIR MOOTOO, 2014. 12″x12″ linocut print on 18″x24″ acid-free paper. 1 of 2 prints. Both now *SOLD*

(1 customer review)

US$180.00

This was designed for and printed on fabric for designer Robert Young, of The Cloth, whose hashtag ‘Trying to get out of a box stuck in a pattern’ was used as inspiration. In the centre, is a figure vomiting as he tries to get out of a box – clad in prison-clothes stripes. The corners are wings of a butterfly.

It was printed on the fabric in a grid-pattern – in rows and columns. In this way, the corners formed a butterfly and the top-to-bottom band formed a long vertical band throughout the fabric.

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1 review for ‘Trying to get out of a box.’ KAVIR MOOTOO, 2014. 12″x12″ linocut print on 18″x24″ acid-free paper. 1 of 2 prints. Both now *SOLD*

  1. Antonia Guerra-Watson

    When I look at this piece, I see the beauty of a person escaping the rigid confines of their “personal prison.” Often times in life we follow a linear path – the right path, the measured path, the path that is known, or dictated – the path that is safe in its predictability.

    But as perfect as we try to build our life, it is not symmetrical –it’s not perfect. We can easily get stuck “in a box”. As we see ourselves emerge from the box we’ve been trapped in, we find freedom and an awakening in consciousness as we enter a softer existence. The tiny boxes slightly askew, each fighting for their individuality and expressiveness against the rigidity of “order” are beautiful in their quirkiness. The dark cloud escaping with us from the box — our anxieties, our fears that kept us imprisoned in that dark box is released into the light. There is a playfulness and freedom found in the movement of wings and little butterflies that greet us on the “outside”.

    The piece reminds me that liberation from our prisons (whether psychological or physical) is attainable. That the world around us is more forgiving in design than we’ve made it out to be.

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