by Prabha Shah

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Ionian Blue

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46" x 36". Oil on canvas. The Sanskrit word for a curtain is ‘yavanika’, that which the Yavans or Ionians, one of the ancient Greek peoples, brought. Here, the finely-woven and finely-bordered curtain has something in common with the lapping waves of blue underneath. The folds of the blue are reminiscent of the delicate but sure folds of clothes in the earliest Buddhist iconography from the Gandhara period. It’s not a deep blue wrought of many pigments, it’s a basic, unashamed blue of the Mediterranean. It’s washing over the cobbled stones of history. Earth washed by water, over which air blows. Just the fire is missing.

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