Ian Calda
October 10 – 12, 2025

Artist Ian Calda traces the delicate thresholds between presence and absence, form and dissolution in his exhibition, Sacred Fragments. Composed of earth pigment and fine limestone sand, Calda’s works appear to be unearthed rather than created. His series is a quiet testament to the passage of time, carrying the patina of memory and the grace of imperfection, incomplete yet whole, fragile yet steadfast, holding a stillness that whispers rather than declares.

Calda’s fragments do not seek perfection. Instead, these embrace the subtle fractures and unfinished edges that allow space for breath, for silence, for reflection. Each surface feels alive, as though imbued with an unseen rhythm, an aura that steadies the mind and softens the gaze. In the work’s austerity, each echoes the spirit of wabi-sabi, the understanding that impermanence itself is sacred, that beauty resides in what is transient, weathered, and unadorned. Calda’s exhibition invites a return inward, toward a slower pulse of being, where contemplation becomes a form of communion.

More than representations, the artworks are thresholds, portals to stillness, meditative vessels that gather and release light, thought, and time. Calda’s series becomes not an assertion but a listening, a reverent offering that reminds an individual that even in the broken lies an infinite wholeness.

Text by Deseree Mapandi