We’re Just Two Souls Swimming

in A fish bowl

Zara Tisma’s latest body of work is inspired by the concept of revisiting personal and meaningful locations using her memory to explore emotions from a specific moment of time and place. Catalysed by the lyrics from the iconic Pink Floyd song, Wish You Were Here, Tisma’s drawings are poetic, autobiographical accounts of moments that have impacted her life.  

Using satellite maps as the starting point, Tisma plots carefully considered lines that reference real, physical environments and entangles evocative, gestural mark makings throughout each composition.  She uses the practise of drawing to access hidden thoughts and process feelings that have otherwise been suppressed.

Using each drawing as a meditative practise, Tisma seeks to work through unsurfaced emotions by drawing replicative maps to trigger past memories from each location. Each drawing bares a narrative to the realities and thought processes that came to life through her gestural mark making in the release of her sensitive, subconscious emotions.

Through the stubble use of colour, Tisma’s work portrays seasonal cycles that explore the passing of time. Through each drawing, she acknowledges the seasons that have come and gone and humbly accepts the present path that she has been placed upon.

True to her style, each work is signed off with her distinctive signature of a free-flowing line to depict the release of emotion that has been longing to be set free.