Mrinal Kanty Das

Life Around Us

oil on canvas

 

The life around us is a collection of both the ugly and the beautiful, light and dark, the living and the dead. To me an apple is a symbol of the beautiful, but the dead, freshly dead, while the cockroach is symbol of ugliness that never dies. In strong colors and stronger presence of light and shade, I captured the apple and roach in life around us.