TISHJ BARZANJI
London-based artist, Tishj Barzanji really makes me understand something about luxury through space, color, and light. The artist’s love for architecture and interior spaces dances hand in hand with what also appears to be a love for fiery, atmospheric light—Like that from the setting or rising of the sun; when the sky offers up its most grand theater of intense hues.
What hits me from viewing illustration after illustration of Barzanji’s living spaces—With their high ceilings, long windows and doors, as if made for columns to enter and exit—Is the prestigious guest who might as well be given a key, the sun. Sunlight is valuable. It paints your home, or rather plays it like a pianist houseguest who unaccidentally discovers your piano. The full drama of a passionate sunrise or violent sunset is transmitted on the luxurious homes Barzanji broadcasts because the homes aren’t blocked by other buildings; because the ceilings are high, the windows as long as the shadows they lure, the rooms minimal and leisurely, not at all practical like an artist studio or factory.
The walls appropriate the sunlight, luxury sells this too. Makes it part of your home most breathtakingly. The grand hall of atmosphere, the ballroom where twilight moves about freely. Right where you dry off after a bath, or sip your morning tea, or even sit in silence after a lover’s quarrel. This capturing of the life-sustaining star--That breathes warmth, daily to the planet--In your habitat like a radio station, or satellite network on your television. Awaiting your engagement should you desire to give it.
To check out more work by Tishj Barzanji, including prints and bio, as well as contact, check out his website.
