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Visual Elements and TechniquesLayered Texture: The composition suggests an encaustic (hot wax) technique, where layers of beeswax and damar resin are used to create translucent depth and embed varied textures.Graphic Overlays: Black dot-grid patterns and stenciled ornate motifs are interspersed throughout the mid-ground, adding a structured, graphic contrast to the fluid, organic drips.Found Imagery: Small, circular elements resembling vintage portraits, clock gears, or biological specimens appear "submerged" within the wax layers, giving the piece a steampunk or archival feel.Composition: The panels use vertical "veils" of color that anchor the piece, balanced by gestural smears and feathered marks that reward close observation.

Abstract ExpressionismFigurativeContemporaryAbstractFigurative / People

About the artist

Shaira Ariz

Karachi, Pakistan

Shaira Ariz, working under the name Shai, is a self-taught abstract and mixed media artist based in Karachi, Pakistan. Her practice is rooted in 12 years of dedicated work in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where she established her own studio, taught emerging artists, and exhibited in numerous group shows. Shai’s paintings emerge from the space where language fails. Through thick impasto, layered textures, and mixed media, she builds surfaces that hold shadow, depth, and silence. Each work is an invitation to pause, to look longer, and to feel what cannot be spoken. Her process is intuitive — guided by brush, color, and the material itself — allowing the canvas to become a site of contemplation and quiet dialogue. Nature remains her constant source. Fragments of landscape, light, and memory find their way into her compositions, moving between the representational and the abstract. The result is a body of work that is singular in presence: tactile, emotive, and alive with visual tension. Beyond her own practice, Shai is committed to mentoring artists who carry the talent but lack the opportunity. For her, art is not only creation it is transmission.

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