Author/Artist :Somnath HoreTitle :Somnath HoreSize :9.5 x 8 inMedium :Pen/Ink & colour on paper
Emotionally, this work feels like a whisper of grief. The marks are faint, hesitant, almost dissolving into the paper. They resemble traces rather than solid forms, as if Hore wanted to capture the memory of suffering rather than the event itself. The horizon line with small vertical figures gives a sense of distance and loneliness—tiny witnesses, or survivors looking on. The darker cross-like marks scattered in the composition resemble scars, wounds, or even grave markers, which ties this image back to Hore’s lifelong concern with the Bengal famine, peasant struggles, and the anonymous dead. This work is quiet but extremely powerful—it feels like standing in an empty field after devastation, where only fragments and shadows remain.
