Sasha Krautman creates artworks inspired by chess boards, landscapes, and nature. Chess functions as a metaphor for contrast, order, mystery, luck, and fate within the pieces. The collection contains twelve chessboard-style works that pair two images so each opposes and fulfills the other. The black-and-white grid dissolves figures into pattern, allowing memory and landscape to interweave. In "Melancholie My Friend," melancholy is treated as something to be kept close rather than escaped, with a woman's form merging into the grid while bluebirds suggest a part of the self ready to lift away amid lingering sorrow.
Artworks inspired by chess boards, landscapes, and nature by Sydney-based artist Sasha Krautman. Chess is a game filled with contrast, order, mystery, luck, and fate. For Krautman, there's a lot of symbolism to be found in one game, even in one simple black and white pattern. Her collection consists of 12 chess board-style art pieces, each bringing together 2 images that simultaneously oppose and fulfill the other.
A woman's figure dissolves into the grid, as if memory and landscape are playing their own quiet game. The shifting squares echo thoughts half-held and half-lost.The bluebirds rise above with a whisper of wings - maybe it's a thought, maybe it's a goodbye, or just the part of her that's ready to lift off while the rest still lingers in the bittersweet nature of letting go.
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