I've just got back from a month in South India. It was wonderful to restore my relationship with all that I love there after a break of 18 years. I didn't do a lot of work. I did these two paintings early on, inspired by poppadums...
And one about a bitter gourd..
After that I just soaked everything in.
Right at the end of the trip, I visited Mattancheri Palace in Kochi, where I found these astonishing mural paintings. They've returned me to some ideas I've been thinking about for a long time in relation to mural paintings at Ajanta, which were done some centuries earlier. I have to do something now in response to this. Let's see....
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