Man & Women...Between Divine And Mundane

It’s a mythopoetical world between man and woman, suspended in timelessness and a space that summons both the earthly and the heavenly. The organic rendering of the human form as nudes with swift strokes and inherent natural textures are reminiscent of nature. As earth bound trees , mountains ,rivers on one side and the luminous colours, more cosmic in symbolism recalling the bright sun, moon ,planets on the other end . At times more obvious, the woman as goddesses and man a gigantic , muscular presence and at times engaged in a sensitive play with each other or with other forms of nature such as birds, fish or flowers. This sensuousness tunes in and balances the ascetic expression of these human forms. Suspended in the humdrum of earthly life ,the body is treated as a sacred entity with philosophical notions of huger , desire , fulfillment , fertility , redemptive , short of extinction . Natural cycles of solar, lunar phases, vegetative cycles of trees and seasonal flow of river water , eternal rotations are symbolized as bright lush green of seasonal crop , white as purity of spirit and the warmth of brown earth and animal ,the blues of life giving water, the fiery yellows of the sacred fire, these are internalized in the body as cosmic energy .They are Lila , the divine play of lord Krishna with Radha . Innocent love, desire, reaching towards a higher self .


Dr .Avani Rao Gandra