The Bud No. 1

In the second phase of her career, Devayani Krishna extensively explored abstraction through the medium of prints. In The Bud No. 1, she revisits a familiar trope among abstractionists, which is to give expression to the genesis of life through the sprouting of a bud, a process that links the beings on the earth to a higher spiritual power. A new light comes to life at the centre of the work, highlighted by red, the colour of fertility and vitality. As it pushes itself out of the covering of sepals, it simultaneously pushes darkness away, an act also likened to enlightenment.