Bardoli Satyagrah (Bulls and Barbed Wire)

This work stages a quiet pastoral drama behind a grid of vertical posts and barbed wire, turning the field into a measured, almost architectural space where animal presence becomes a study in containment. Olive and ochre tones breathe a weathered atmosphere, while the stark black-and-white bodies punctuate the surface like weighted thoughts moving through memory. The tension between the soft, rubbed paint and the incisive linear scarring suggests a fragile truce—between freedom and boundary, instinct and order—so that the cattle read less as livestock than as silhouettes of endurance within a human-imposed frame.