Untitled

Himmat Shah’s excellence as a sculptor lies in making heads with a rare sophistication, an intrinsic texture and a unique quality. This can be seen in this brilliant Untitled sculpture. Raw in its energy and texture, this Untitled head, like Shah’s other works, stands as a symbol of the passage of mankind—from an ancient civilisation to the present one. All emerging from the nostalgic memories of the artist who grew up near the Harappan archaeological site in Lothal, Gujarat, Shah’s heads are an ode to the Mohenajodaro ‘priest-king’, the 4,000-year-old steatite bust discovered from the other Harappan site.