Dying Together
print, 6”x9” 2017-2018
This print is from a series of illustrative, narrative paintings called Disappearing Fire. The original paintings are on 8 (7-8ft) scrolls with 60 individually composed images that are all connected as one continuous narrative. It has been turned into a book with accompanying poetry telling the story. A snippet of the story has also adapted into a short animation.
The story explores the workings of the inner psyche. Kin and Kang are twin reflections personifying left hemisphere and right hemisphere brain type of thinking. Kin resides on top of a cliff, protecting the tree of knowledge and it’s connections to people and ideas in the physical reality outside of the mind. Kang frequently dives off the cliff into the subconscious realm. She roams in the darkness of thought and deconstructs deeper meanings in dreams and intrinsic urges. Kin is the energy given to the world and Kang is the energy given to oneself.
The two characters learn to coexist their own surrealistic world until a mysterious fire dog enters their world to teach them to experience empathy, care and loss to new depths.
About the artist
Kim Sandara , They/She
@kimthediamond, kimsandara.com
As an artist I’m interested in LGBTQ+ topics, the Secret War in Laos, stream of consciousness work and personally I like looking into a lot in childhood nostalgia in the 90s too. I work in gouache, watercolor, ink and acrylic. Sometimes I also collage and make abstract paintings inspired by music.
print, 6”x9” 2017-2018
This print is from a series of illustrative, narrative paintings called Disappearing Fire. The original paintings are on 8 (7-8ft) scrolls with 60 individually composed images that are all connected as one continuous narrative. It has been turned into a book with accompanying poetry telling the story. A snippet of the story has also adapted into a short animation.
The story explores the workings of the inner psyche. Kin and Kang are twin reflections personifying left hemisphere and right hemisphere brain type of thinking. Kin resides on top of a cliff, protecting the tree of knowledge and it’s connections to people and ideas in the physical reality outside of the mind. Kang frequently dives off the cliff into the subconscious realm. She roams in the darkness of thought and deconstructs deeper meanings in dreams and intrinsic urges. Kin is the energy given to the world and Kang is the energy given to oneself.
The two characters learn to coexist their own surrealistic world until a mysterious fire dog enters their world to teach them to experience empathy, care and loss to new depths.
About the artist
Kim Sandara , They/She
@kimthediamond, kimsandara.com
As an artist I’m interested in LGBTQ+ topics, the Secret War in Laos, stream of consciousness work and personally I like looking into a lot in childhood nostalgia in the 90s too. I work in gouache, watercolor, ink and acrylic. Sometimes I also collage and make abstract paintings inspired by music.
print, 6”x9” 2017-2018
This print is from a series of illustrative, narrative paintings called Disappearing Fire. The original paintings are on 8 (7-8ft) scrolls with 60 individually composed images that are all connected as one continuous narrative. It has been turned into a book with accompanying poetry telling the story. A snippet of the story has also adapted into a short animation.
The story explores the workings of the inner psyche. Kin and Kang are twin reflections personifying left hemisphere and right hemisphere brain type of thinking. Kin resides on top of a cliff, protecting the tree of knowledge and it’s connections to people and ideas in the physical reality outside of the mind. Kang frequently dives off the cliff into the subconscious realm. She roams in the darkness of thought and deconstructs deeper meanings in dreams and intrinsic urges. Kin is the energy given to the world and Kang is the energy given to oneself.
The two characters learn to coexist their own surrealistic world until a mysterious fire dog enters their world to teach them to experience empathy, care and loss to new depths.
About the artist
Kim Sandara , They/She
@kimthediamond, kimsandara.com
As an artist I’m interested in LGBTQ+ topics, the Secret War in Laos, stream of consciousness work and personally I like looking into a lot in childhood nostalgia in the 90s too. I work in gouache, watercolor, ink and acrylic. Sometimes I also collage and make abstract paintings inspired by music.