Untitled

For spiritualist-artist Sohan Qadri, it was not just the visual plane of the painting but the process of creating that plane too that was an exercise in meditation. The meditative aspect of the work was reinforced with the repetition of furrows and perforations in a rhythmic pattern, as in this Untitled work. He soaked the paper thus marked with dye and allowed it to seep inside its grain, to transform it from a mere surface to a repository of the meditative experience. Here, a vertical line dotted at its ends splices through the horizontal furrows, infusing this lush green work with the chakras of life.