Artwork by Apurva Talpade

This is a piece of work by artist Apurva Talpade. Apurva has been toying with blocks for a long time. 

For this work, she collected a variety of figures from miniature paintings, and brought them together to create a world of their own. Each figure enjoys its own space while being self absorbed. None of them require the other necessarily. They exist in their own company, happy and joyous. The horse, the elephant, the peacock, the fist, or even the tree, flower cloud and umbrella - precisely know where they have to be. There is no expectation from any other creature to be anywhere else. In their gentle dispositions, they create and inhabit their own worlds. 

Block prints are more often than not conceived in a manner of repetition, and regularity. Apurva has pinned this work on her wall, which I kept gazing for a long time. What glued me to the work is the tension created between these figures through the white space left between them. The strategic distribution of empty space allows each object to be within their own world. To be sure, there is no larger world within Apruva's canvas. This clever balance of disparate figures co-existing within the same frame is the perhaps the success of the work. My note here is very underdeveloped, precisely because I am still trying to figure out why I am enjoying this work so much.

Until I find answers, please do look at Apurva Talpade's other works.