Untitled (Cycle of Life)

Here’s an unfinished painting by Sarada Charan Ukil featuring three figures who are holding one another in a tight embrace. While one of the figures’ facial expression is hidden, the younger figure’s face seems beatific and it seems that he’s going on a long journey, getting out to live a life and prove his worth. Only one of the three figures’ expression can be fully seen—sinister-looking, old and wrinkled, this figure seems to see some impending doom of which the other two seem oblivious.