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Sujith KS, in the present series has taken a different approach to deal with the internal turmoil of a thinking individual living in the midst of social spectacles. With an enlightened awareness about nature and the current debates on the depletion of environment, Sujith intervenes in this discourse through a different visual mode, or to put it in different words, through a different voice. He does not lament on the forests that we have cut down. He does not speak of the rivers that have gone dry. Instead, he paints a landscape which is possible if human beings aspire to make them a reality. These are sustainable models of landscapes mingled with a sort of religious reference. In the present series, Sujith paints a landscape, which is full and empty at the same time. The illusion is created out of the green stream and greenish blue forest and a clear blue sky with scattered white clouds. A lonely monkey is seen sitting on a branch that sprouts from nowhere and goes into infinity. This lone monkey and its loneliness on a lonely branch show that there is nothing much left and what you see around is an illusion. In the second painting, which should be seen as a critical take on religion and its relationship with the environment, we see a well lit church, a star, a lamb and an angel comforting a sad man. The references are clear enough to tell the onlooker about the birth and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. But where the shepherd has gone, leaving the lamb alone? This apparently alluring landscape seems to be an illusion without the ones who have to take care of it. Through religious reference, Sujith reaches to the level of criticality making himself and the viewer to move in and out of the informed environmental discourse. |
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