Spiral of life

Siti use of simple shapes or symbols –cubs, circles, cones, spiral- convey energy and counterforce, reflecting his perception of the cyclical and repetitive patterns of life and death. He juxtaposes the image of the house, represented by the cubs or stones, with enduring cycle of destruction and restoration, of live incorporating death. The physical structure of the house is transient: built, destroyed and replaced, perpetuating the cycle.

Attraction and repulsion, movement and flexibility of these supportive yet oppressive social connections. Siti's visual language is therefore a metaphor for contradictions and conflicting states within the cycle of humankind. In the same way that poets tests the finite nature of language to probe the limitations and extremities of human thought and existence, in his many drawings and paintings, Siti also gives shape to the finite nature of live and the infinity if existence.

Rose Issa