Cluster

Cluster comes from the intermittent stage of Shobha Broota’s career when her earlier figurative works were gradually making way for explorations into the abstract to ultimately lead to her signature style of meditative colour field works rooted in Indian abstractionism. This stage was marked by engaging with the abstract through amorphous forms made up of smaller entities of indeterminate identity. The brown palette here has an earthy connotation, and the cluster could be the growth of a life form through repeated division and multiplication of cells into a mass with tonal gradations separating older cells from the newer.