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Panel 1: Based on an image from a street in Mahuva. Gujarat province, India.

Acrylic, oil, pastel and graphite on wood panel. 60cms x 60cms x 5cms. August 2013


 

The panel is based on a piece of street art/graffiti found just off Janta Plot Street in Mahuva, Gujarat. The front of the building housed a small shrine to the Mother Goddess, Durga.

The figure of Krishna had been chalked into the top left-hand section, but I decided to replace this with two other bits of graffiti from the wall and one from the pavement - an odd image that was somewhere between a mitre and a fish; a pair of dividers; and the ubiquitous 'eye within a triangle', which seems to appear in all sorts of places and guises all over the world.

The kerbstone in the foreground painted red, may have, or have had, some connection with the graffiti on the wall, though it could have been in connection with something else that predated the current decoration on the wall.

Traces of smoke from a (presumably often lit), candle form part of the painted panel, as they did on the street original.

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