“Dancer with a Flute” playfully reimagines the sacred icon of Krishna through a childlike lens. Mixing bold colors with loose strokes over a traditional religious outline, the work explores innocence, devotion, and the human impulse to participate – even imperfectly – in the divine. Part of an ongoing series where spiritual images are interrupted by spontaneous coloring, it reflects the tension between reverence and irreverence, ritual and freedom.
“Whenever there is a decline in righteousness and an increase in unrighteousness, O Arjuna, at that time I manifest Myself on earth.”
– Bhagavadgita 4.7
One of “few pages from a coloring book”
100x140x3 cm
acrylic, graphite, fixative on canvas