Art for a cause
Stories Told And Untold
"I am, at heart, a story-teller,” says Samita. “And, I believe, the stories that are worth telling are those that travel through time and space, yet remain relevant despite changing social mores, political systems, ecological balances and gender equations.” Her work has always been marked by a deep empathy for the characters that dot her narrative landscape – particularly her female protagonists, through whose eyes she reflects upon the human condition – sometimes bleak, dark and despairing but, in her telling and purpose, always hopeful and optimistic.
- TITLE: Woman and a Dog
- Medium: Pastel on Paper
- Size-in inch: 7.25” x 5.25”
- DESC: On a cold night, a woman out for a walk, sees a stray dog seeking the warmth of a home or shelter. Will she give him one?
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- TITLE: The Matriarch
- Medium: Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
- Size-in inch: 14” x 10”
- DESC: I picked this person out from a group of just-arrived migrants. Though in new surroundings, travel weary and with a group of younger women and kids to shepherd, I saw fire in her eyes, and unflinching purpose in her posture.
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- TITLE: Women in Love
- Medium: Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
- Size-in inch: 10.5” x 14.5”
- DESC: “Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. ” ― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
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- TITLE: Woman on Fire
- Medium: Mixed Media
- Size-in inch: 13.5” x 10.5”
- DESC: Even in modern times, women have to go through fire to prove their worthiness, merit and honour. Figuratively speaking, the practice of "sati" is still to be fully extinguished.
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- TITLE: Mother & daughter, heart to heart
- Medium: Pastel, Charcoal and Conte Pencil on Paper
- Size-in inch: 20” x 14.5”
- DESC: Mother taking her rebellious daughter to task – her premature promiscuity, the “elephant in the room” – rendered in a Dali-esque manner.
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- TITLE: Boat boys of Sundarbans
- Medium: Charcoal and Conte Pencil on Paper
- Size-in inch: 14.5” x 20.5”
- DESC: Chugging down the Matla, in a riverboat of advanced years and disposition, manned by two Muslim boys, though “manned” would be a misnomer, the captain in his late teens and his co-pilot some years younger. Smart, competent and confident beyond their years as they gear up for an approaching storm.
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- TITLE: Fisher Boys
- Medium: Pastel and Charcoal on Paper
- Size-in inch: 13” x 21.5”
- DESC: After a morning of fishing deep into the sea with Dad at the helm, I got these boys to pose for me beside their drying nets. Brothers by blood, brothers in spirit.
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- TITLE: The Appearance
- Medium: Pastel on Paper (Diptych)
- Size-in inch: 10.5” x 14”
- DESC: Imagining a solitary man on a camel crossing a barren desert at night under a sky full of stars. If he were to suddenly see a bright glow, source unknown, inexplicable, would he be the same man again?
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- TITLE: Saints in Conversation
- Medium: White pen on Black Paper (with a touch of pastel)
- Size-in inch: 20” x 15”
- DESC: Non-divisiveness as I imagine it – a Hindu saint and a Muslim maulana in animated but respectful conversation, comfortable in their own skins and beliefs.
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- TITLE: Saraswati Perturbed
- Medium: Conte Pencil on Paper
- Size-in inch: 16” x 12”
- DESC: A mildly satirical imagining and rendition. While we pray to Ma Saraswati to impart knowledge and bless our children, on every visit she sees more chaos, divisiveness, violence and corruption; so much so, she becomes more concerned about her own welfare than her devotees.
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- TITLE: Rocks in Conversation
- Medium: Mixed Media
- Size-in inch: 11.5” x 6”
- DESC: A pair of rock formations that caught my eye - two figures in animated conversation.
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- TITLE: Rock Stars
- Medium: Pastel and Charcoal
- Size-in inch: 20.5” x 7.5”
- DESC: To me, rocks, like clouds, take many forms. They are shape shifters, appearing as something in one kind of light and shadow and altogether something else in another. These elongated rocks are either about to fight or embrace. The shorter rocks around them could be an audience of kids
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- TITLE: Gossip Girls
- Medium: Dry Pastel and Pencil on Paper
- Size-in inch: 13.5” x 18”
- DESC: Girlfriends together forever. Having fun, passing time. One among them, of course, dominates the conversation!
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- TITLE: Address Unknown I
- Medium: Pastel and Pencil on Paper
- Size-in inch: 14” x 23.5”
- DESC: Travel weary, but with aspirations in their hearts, migrants like these abound in Kolkata’s stations at Howrah, Santragachi and Sealdah. On the first day of arrival amidst the hustle and bustle, their eyes mirror the confusion in their minds, their posture, the trepidation in their hearts.
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- TITLE: Address Unknown II
- Medium: Pastel and Pencil on Paper
- Size-in inch: 15” x 21.5”
- DESC: Migrants arriving in numbers at Howrah station had me in their thrall. It was fascinating to see the expressions on their faces. Travel worn but bright-eyed, with expectations of better tomorrows, confused by their surroundings, lost in the bustle, apprehensive of the days ahead but determined to make a go of it come what may.
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- TITLE: Chaos
- Medium: Mixed Media
- Size-in inch: 8.5” x 6”
- DESC: A rendition depicting our chaotic times - hunger for power, greed for money and material things and the lust for control and domination
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