Elias Sime FINAL DROP (የመጨረሻዋ ጠብታ)

FINAL DROP (የመጨረሻዋ ጠብታ) features new woven electrical wire assemblages from the artist's ongoing Tightrope series. Working with electronic components such as circuit boards, computer keys, and telecommunications wires, Sime creates lyrical abstract compositions that shift seamlessly between evocations of landscape, urban topography, the human form, and expansive fields of radiant color. These works represent the movement of material goods across the globe while illuminating the fragility of our networked existence. Reflecting the dynamic interplay between technological progress and human experience, his works capture the ways our lives are bound to the devices that surround us. While recent Tightrope works have been characterized by subtly shifting tonalities, the new works foreground sinuous biomorphic forms alongside bold geometric patterning. Ovoid, cellular shapes that suggest droplets of water or human gestation and curling vines that evoke budding plant life contain–or are contained–by rhythmic cubic tessellations. These juxtapositions between the axonometric and organic allow Sime to posit connections between our built and natural environments.