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Field Notes from the Cultural Apothecary

Girl with Green Bird

From the darkness, her face emerges - softly illuminated, as though lit by a thought she cannot quite name. Her gaze drifts outward, beyond the room, beyond the visible, tracing the edges of an unseen dream.

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Wrapped in a thick woollen sweater, she seems to carry warmth against the chill of silence. On her hand rests a small green bird, bright and patient - a living thought, perhaps, or the fragile echo of what she once hoped for.

Girl with Green Bird is a meditation on presence and absence - the moment when stillness becomes luminous, and the unseen stirs gently in the light.

Chestnut Tree

Chestnut Tree

A tribute to René Magritte and the quiet mystery of trees.

In this painting, a single chestnut tree stands like a window cut into the world - its crown revealing a crescent moon and a sky alive with stars. Below, stones rest on the earth, mountains rise at a distance, and the air holds the stillness between seeing and being seen.

Magritte once wrote that the tree, growing from earth to sun, is an image of happiness - but only if we are still enough to perceive it.

Here, the tree becomes both witness and mirror, rooted in matter yet opening toward the infinite, a reminder that what we watch may also be watching us.

Four Owls

Four Owls

Under a shimmering blue night sky, brushed by the light of a crescent moon, four owls stand in quiet balance - one upon another, each a different kind, their feathers catching the faint glow of the hour. Three pairs of eyes watch outward, bright and alert, while the smallest owl at the top sleeps, her lids folded like wings at rest.

From both sides the night’s foliage leans inward, framing this fragile tower of vigilance and dream - a meeting of wakefulness and peace beneath the breathing blue of night.

Schiele meets India

Schiele meets India

A cultural encounter on canvas

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Where Egon Schiele’s four autumn trees once leaned toward decay, these trees stand rooted in light - their trunks steady, their branches alive with colour and the promise of renewal. This painting reimagines Schiele’s vision through an Indian lens, where the season of fall becomes not an ending, but a luminous transformation.

Schiele meets India is a cultural encounter on canvas - a conversation between introspection and celebration, restraint and abundance. The trees seem to bloom one last time, not in defiance of change, but in harmony with it - offering a glimpse of the eternal rhythm where loss gives birth to life again.

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