The tree

Arpana requested the artist to paint single tree-form in some works. Though all folk artists have a tendency to fill-in the whole space, this single tree molit was painted on her request. Otherwise an ordinary tree with Pipal tree-like leaves and Bata or banyan tree-like roots, it is more like a motif to be read in between the lines : “protect the earth as also the sky for life sustains by both”. The tree, painted here, has roots into the earth but also in the space above suggesting the alike significance of both for life.