Category: Paintings
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Joy of Life-43
Lord Vishnu has taken the avatar of Kurma, who is an important figure in Hindu cosmology and an early incarnation of Lord Vishnu. This family of turtles and their many young offspring show the affirmation of life, creativity, and pro-creativity. The rich yellow, pink, and turquoise shades bring a luminous mood of hope, happiness, energy,…
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Vasundhara-5
This painting on canvas tells the tale of the visit I made in my last reporting period to the very famous Maa Siddha Bhairavi Temple situated in village Mantridi in Brahmapur in Odisha. The deity here is found four feet below the ground level over which the shrine is built. Inside the temple complex, there…
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Udaan-3
Rising high above the trials and the turmoil of this materialistic world, this pair of turtles soars high into the cosmos and is beautifully presented in the soft shades of pink. I have deliberately shown the world to be smaller in reference to the larger turtles, which soar effortlessly toward the heavens above and are…
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Udaan-2
In the set of these two paintings, the pair of tortoises are painted in flying mode. They both are enjoying the camaraderie of each other and hymns the song ‘I want to fly like you’. This is a pure form of love; love for freedom. To fly towards a secret sky and let go of…
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Kurma Avatar
The painting here demonstrates the ‘Kurma Avatar’ of Lord Vishnu, which was the second incarnation in the form of a tortoise. The Kurma avatar of Lord Vishnu is usually represented in a mixed human-animal form. The human half, which is the upper half, is depicted wearing the same ornaments and holding the same weapons as in the…
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Eternal Love-5
The artwork portrays the thought that the turtle is considered to have brought about the creation of the universe from its body. Here a male and female turtle are together building aspirations to have a family. They are feeling the emotion of when we are together, the world feels like it is in perfect harmony. Contemplating about the…