KOCHI: "The sights and incidents which I had come across take expressions on my canvas. My paintings gab about the sorrows and grievances of women and children, difficulties of the downtrodden and other episodes that have touched my heart," says Mona S Mohan.Five students of RLV College of Music and Arts have displayed differed facets of life at Bindhi Art Gallery. Titled 'Root', the expo is an eye candy for the art lovers. The talent of the five final year BFA students, Anagha A R, Ashil Anthony, Ebby Eddasery, P Ramesh and Mona S comes alive in the works. The collection centres around thoughtful and realistic ideas. Mona's untitled acrylic painting picturises a woman garbage picker throwing a baby wrapped in a cloth along with its doll into the garbage. Mona says, "It is sad that babies tend to be a burden for couples who enter an early marriage and become parents. As they get too little time to spend with each other, the interference of a child irritates them at some point. The painting conveys to the art lovers a situation where children are no longer wanted by their parents, the same way as toys are no longer the preferences of children. The painting is priced at `30,000.Anagha A R's oil painting of a pink flowery cactus plant has to do with the smooth and prickly sides of life. She tries to portray the inner meaning of thorns and flowers. Thorns are the problems and sorrows of today and the flowers at the tip of the plant auger the good things expected to happen tomorrow. She says, "One should not take their problems with a heavy heart. Be optimistic and live each day with the thought that there is a better tomorrow." Both Mona's and Anagha's paintings are priced at `30,000.Ashil's painting which portray an inverted cylinder with a wooden piece across denotes the threats being faced by our forest. "Uprooting one plant would be something small, but more of it will result in a dangerous situation. Deforestation for constructions will have a negative impact on our environment. So let us put an end to deforestation and go in for afforestation," says Ashil. His painting costs `15,000. Out of the two paintings on a mixed medium of charcoal and acrylic, Fr Ebey Edassery's painting of a Bodhi tree at first glance seems to be incomplete. The lack of completion has its own reasons. He says, "The painting shows the incomplete expansion of the tree from the top and from the ground level. I compare this to the indefiniteness of human life. The two dimensional aspect of the tree's growth is compared to the outer and inner growth of a human life. Can anyone predict the extent to which a person can grow?" Ebey's work has a price tag of ` 20,000.The exhibition will be on till Saturday.
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