Arpana Caur

Day & Night is an everyday phenomena but rarely painted by any Indian or Western artist. I can only remember Michelangelo’s 2 marble sculptures of Day and Night that I saw in Rome many years ago. So I began painting Day and Night over 20 years ago and cannot let go, as the subject of Time and Timelessness obsesses me. In the canvas in this exhibition night conquers day. In the etchings night and the moon dominate. While the city sleeps (in the larger etching ‘Night’) the moon reigns. In the small etching the moon is a sheltering umbrella in a sleeping city. In Earth and Sky the ‘tasla’ (container) of a woman labourer converts into the moon of her dreams. The inspiration is my single mother who alone built her Cultural Centre with 4 free Museums and library over 30 years ago. In ‘Diety’ money is the new God on whose head is adorned the moon.