Bathukamma 1 Printmaking Figurative Printmaking

Two children emerge from a dense, patterned field of green, their faces lit in warm golds that feel like late-afternoon light filtering through memory rather than a literal sun. The vigorous, crosshatched marks and repeating leaf motifs create a pulsing ground that both shelters and presses in, turning the meadow into a psychological space where intimacy and unease coexist. Their matching, richly textured sweaters read as a shared history—protective armor and familial bond—while the slight divergence in their gazes suggests private inner worlds forming side by side. In this tension between decorative abundance and tender portraiture, the work meditates on childhood as a place where innocence is never pure, but always threaded with awareness.