by Prabha Shah

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Creeping Marble

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50" x 50". Oil on Canvas. The Mughals mostly constructed in red stone. But when Shah Jahan came along in the 17th century, he shifted to white marble. It changed architecture in the Indian subcontinent forever. But in his later years, the emperor became a captive in one of his own creations. Prabha uses a traditional Rajasthani doorway on a rusty red facade where the white is creeping up, like a poor man’s marble. The artist’s trademark of asymmetric threshold is there. As is the feeling that this painting is a surface that sits on top of another. !

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