Invited artist:Shiven Saxena
Artist Statement:
Forgetting Home, 2024
Mixed Media College and Poetry
Forgetting Home is a mixed-media collage divided down the middle, with each half depicting views from places the artist has called home. The imagery reflects blurred and corrupted fragments of memories—familiar windows, surroundings, chairs. The stitching symbolizes the imperfect but necessary process of reconciling the changes in identity to construct a feeling of belonging.
Accompanying the piece is the poem:
Forgetting the marbles,
for a better kind of stone;
I will remember
again
Remembering
what they felt like,
the marbles
at home
Before forgetting
again
Shiven Saxena is an educator and Artist working in Mixed Media. He is an Assistant Professor of Digital Arts at Southwestern College, Kansas.
As an artist, Shiven explores the fluidity of identity and the Self as it transforms over time and place. His work weaves together fragments of memory to examine the narratives that we build, and let shape us. Using layered textures and images, He creates pieces that invite viewers to consider their own evolving stories and connections.