Suryamukhi

This sculpture, in ovoid, packs a virtuoso punch and lives up to Prodosh Das Gupta’s genius of investing in a visual idiom that was inspired by the understanding of prana or breath and his belief that the ovoid shape could potentially be a symbol of creation, of birth. Suryamukhi, in fact, belongs to the phase when he was exploring this quest of finding a medium’s ‘genesis’, exploring the negative volume of the egg shape through concave surfaces and finding innate energy in it.