this is dedicated to the mother earth and the Tagore foundation

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How we need to do something................................Let it begin with Me!

SOMETHING VERY CLOSE TO MY HEART.............................WOMEN!

Following the success of my environmental art series on the global deterioration of coral reefs, I decided to take a break and traveled by road through the rural landscape of India. Once again looking for inspirations from the environment, or rather the unabashed destruction of it.

Instead, I stumbled upon the plight of the girl child and women in general through a vast majority of India. I met and heard out members of the ‘Khap Panchayats’ and shivered at their medieval systems of justice, met the polyandric societies of the Himalayas, came face to face with the horror of female feticide, the unfortunate victims of Halala and met 60 year old women carrying 15 year old uterine endometriosis who had never met a gynecologist in their lives or even knew there was indeed such a creature.

What was to be a joyous and freewheeling swirl around the countryside, turned into a daily ordeal of tears and reckoning by the fire light as evenings approached. I pondered and anguished over the plight of the GIRL: The ONE ENERGY that drives all other, the beginning of all life, the carrier of love and the keeper of dignity. This present series of paintings is my personal pouring of all that is the GIRL ENERGY or as I call it

ENERGY – THE POWER OF THE WOMAN.

It is a soulful rendition of strokes dipped in emotion, plea, rebellion, tears, determination and even rage. It is a cosmic mix of an artist’s energy with the energies that I experienced by meeting people who were all born of women and unanimously disrespected her. ENERGY, a series of renditions on canvas is powerful, conversational and thought provoking all at the same time.

This series of the paintings is dedicated to the Recognition of the Woman whose rights have been stifled by the Antagonist Society.