Shyama Golden
Region: Pacific Coast
My current works are populated with a cast of characters which includes vine-covered trees suggestive of human archetypes, Sri Lankan yakkas from exorcism rituals, and self-portraiture. They are set in a parallel dimension of Los Angeles that exists in my mind—but much like the real place, it is littered with trash and multiple versions of myself locked in existential struggle. The narratives in the work tend to be autobiographical renderings of my emotional landscape. They are intended to capture the reality of a feeling, giving form to an ongoing process of reinvention and rebirth, synchronized with a world undergoing its own social and political transformations.