The Names Of The Statues

The milled steel gallows acts as a sort of frame for both a mirror and a watercolour. Here, life (poetry and reflection) is at one with death (the hangman’s noose). Here, one reads the painting while contemplating the viewer (him or herself), with the threat of a forced execution hanging between. The text, tenderly delineated by the artist, is by a 12th century mystic saint from Southern India, Allama Prabhu.