Art by: Poonam Thakkar
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 1.5ft x 3ft
If we had no words everything would have to be expressed in sounds, drawings, symbols and gestures... It would be a very different world let's try to think of that and choose our tool to express our story without words.
I have chosen this story below to depict story on canvas for my Bridal palanquin art from the eminent Indian activist and poet Sarojini Naidu as follows:
Lightly, O lightly we bear her along,
She sways like a flower in the wind of our song;
She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream,
She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream.
Gaily, O gaily we glide and we sing,
We bear her along like a pearl on a string.
Softly, O softly we bear her along,
She hangs like a star in the dew of our song;
She springs like a beam on the brow of the tide,
She falls like a tear from the eyes of a bride.
Lightly, O lightly we glide and we sing,
We bear her along like a pearl on a string.
- Sarojini Naidu
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