Description

Ape Audio (2025)

Original Fine Art by Ashvin Harrison
From the origins of life to the echoes of tomorrow — a visual symphony of evolution, memory, and meaning.

Artwork Description:
Ape Audio is a profound original painting by Ashvin Harrison, capturing the philosophical tension between progress and origin, nature and invention, the primitive and the advanced. At once whimsical and contemplative, this fine artwork invites the viewer into a thought-provoking meditation on time, consciousness, and the audio of our existence.

A baby ape — a symbol of our biological genesis — stands in quiet concentration, lips pressed to the mouthpiece of a tuba. The instrument, a marvel of human engineering and expression, becomes a powerful metaphor in this scene: a creation of sound forged by intellect, yet now powered by instinct. It is the tool of the future held in the hands of the past — a beautiful contradiction that asks us to reflect on the cycles of advancement.

From the bell of the tuba erupts a garden of life — a radiant bloom of wildflowers, vines, and expressive energy, painted with a mix of vibrant acrylics, oils, and shimmer-infused mediums. Every petal and leaf becomes a symbol of time’s unfolding — growth not just in the biological sense, but in our ideas, cultures, and emotional landscapes.

Embedded subtly in the curvature of the tuba’s reflective metal surface is the faint image of a human — gazing back at the ape with quiet wonder. This mirrored soul represents the existential question at the heart of the piece: What have we become? And what did we leave behind in the process?

Ape Audio is more than a visual. It is an audible silence. A poetic reminder that every advancement carries with it a reflection — and that perhaps, the truest music of our lives is found in listening to our place within time itself.

Key Features:

Title: Ape Audio (2025)
Medium: Coconut charcoal, acrylics, oil paints, shimmer and metallic mediums
Canvas: Museum Grade 4cm Australian Hardwood Gum backed-stretched fine art 12oz canvas
Size: 48 x 36 inches (91 x 122cm)
Technique: Hand-painted using Ashvin Harrison’s unique charcoal brushing technique and expressive floral-splatter style
Finish: Five layers of white gesso; sealed with archival-quality fixatives
Presentation: Stretched and ready to hang
Authenticity: Signed on the front in art ink; signed and dated on the back; includes a hand-signed certificate of authenticity
Shipping: Shipped worldwide with full insurance and premium protective packaging

Whether curated in a philosophy lover’s collection, a modern gallery, or a contemplative personal space, Ape Audioresonates as both artwork and inquiry — a timeless expression of evolution, imagination, and the deeper music we carry forward.

Additional Artwork Information

Ashvin Harrison paints realistic artworks inspired by real life posing people and nature, photographs or imagination. Also, all artworks have a charcoal dust element to them. This painting, like most pieces, is a mixture of acrylics, acrylic medium thinners, acrylic medium flows and also mixing additives with charcoal dust paint. This completely new made up approach to create art is a large part of Ashvin’s fast growing popularity in the art world.

Please contact me if you would like to see more photos or also seek more information about this artwork. All artworks ship for free to any country and also location within. Insurance and import taxes paid for by Ashvin, making for stress free purchasing and arrival of your new painting.

If this artwork is not the one for you, please check out the Artworks in Stock Page. Contact Ashvin to discuss a custom commissioned artwork. Ashvin can also create on different size formats of rolled or ready to hang artworks. Also, Ashvin offers super sized rolled canvas artworks up to 265cm (104″).