Fluff (2016)

Mixed Media painting by Rudra Kishore Mandal

$1,300 Sold

• Mixed Media painting on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 20.5 x 28.5 x 1 in (unframed)
• This artwork is sold unframed
• Signed on the front
• Style: Illustrative
• Subject: Animals and birds

• Artwork description

  Artist's description:

  Every year after the rains are gone, and the autumn sunshine announced the arrival of Durga Puja, with the chill in the air indicating that winter is near... during that time my mom used to bring out all the pillows, cushions and mattresses up on the terrace, to sunbathe them. She insisted on doing this like a ritual every year, to get rid of the musty and unhealthy smell that the prolonged rainy season left behind on everything. She will carefully, almost lovingly, fluff up the pillows and the cushions till they looked like square or rectangular ‘Phulkas’, puffing up on a ‘tawa’ and turn them over at regular intervals. The pillows and cushions will soon become warm and cozy and that is the time when our pet cats, a family of five we had for over six years, will make good use of the soft fluffy playground! The young kittens will play hide and seek among the cushions and roll around, as if the cushions and pillows had been laid out for them. Slowly the warmth will make them drowsy and eventually they will fall asleep. I used to love watching them perform this little drama, and sometimes join in their game with a ball of wool or some other prop. All I have now are the memories of those afternoons, which manage to bring a smile of contentment to my lips, even now. It is like the taste of some delicious jam or pickle you had stolen and tasted once and the taste still lingers in your memory, bringing you pleasure mingled with nostalgia. I still remember the smell of those warm pillows, the feel of the soft fabric, the fluffy fur of the cats, their soft lazy ‘purrrs’ of satisfaction, and the smile on my mom’s face... Happiness was so easy to find, once!! Yet, many may find it to be nothing but ‘fluff’!
  
  Used watercolor and pen drawing to bring this artwork to life!

  Materials used:

  Watercolor and pen drawing with waterproof ink on acid free paper

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