Awakening Alone

A damsel in the wilderness, forlorn and alone, as her beau—perhaps the figure in the background—has just departed, to ride away on the boat that bobs on the river below… this story could be straight out of an eighteenth-nineteenth century English novel illustrated with drawings like the one Dhruva Mistry created with hurried strokes in this work titled Awakening Alone—has the woman woken up from a dream to find her man gone? It’s not the narrative but the strength of the strokes in the figuration that give an idea of his signature sculptural creations for which Mistry is most well-known.