Author/Artist :Somnath HoreTitle :Somnath HoreSize :10 x 8 inMedium :Pencil & colour on paper
The painting feels vulnerable, almost childlike in its honesty. The scribbles carry a restless energy, yet the sparseness leaves behind a sense of emptiness. It gives an impression of fragility, pain, and memory — as though trying to capture something fleeting, wounded, or broken. The green introduces a faint breath of life, but it struggles against the starkness of the pencil marks.
Emotionally, it feels like an unfinished thought, a scar, or a whisper of trauma. Hore’s works are often connected to human suffering (especially from famine and war), and this piece seems to embody that silence — not through dramatic imagery, but through stripped, skeletal traces.
