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Water colour on paper, 20.5” X 14.5”

Comments from Viewers, in response to the VTS question "what is going on the image"

Trupti Godbole there is smoke all around, fire too. bare tree with skulls depicts the condition of our mother earth in the present times. we have ruined our good earth is what this picture seems to say.. February 24 at 10:26am · Like

Pooja Rungta i believe this refers to the various faces of the SAME man passing thro various stages during a lifetime and all of them are not the same and mite not be green and equally rosy. The tree cud stand for better times and the root /source of life and its deteriratiing state for various phases we go thro´...overall, it does not create a very happy/ soothing effect...thats wat makes me think tht my interpretation cud be absolutely wrong. February 24 at 5:00pm · Like

Pooja Rungta another interpretation cud be so many ppl using the same tree-which cud be the mother earth n hence ruining it completely and thats y the overall depiction is very sad. February 24 at 5:15pm · Like

Sangeetha Pradeep am not able to interpret much.. souls hanging on to tree.. which is warm ( the warm colors of the leaves) and uncomfortable.. but the tree is what keeps them rooted to the grounded even in the midst of problems and darkness around... February 24 at 6:45pm · Like

Neat Girish thinking minds in human head, there are so many minds in our head. we call it as Cop in a head. it seems like that. February 24 at 7:09pm · Like

Sujata Tibrewala Thanks Goutom/Deepti for liking it... What were your thoughts when you first saw this image? remember there are no right or wrng answers in art :) February 25 at 4:19pm · Like

Sujata Tibrewala ‎@Trupti you are seeing the tree as bare tree, and the fact that you see the tree as bare and the skulls reminds you of the pathetic condition of the mother earth. What more can you find? February 25 at 4:22pm · Like

Sujata Tibrewala ‎@Pooja You see the various skulls as various stages of man, each stage with their own feelings, and the fact that these skulls are hanging from one tree makes you feel that the tree could be the source of life for each one, but is deteriorating from overuse and hence could also be linked to mother earth. It does not create a happy feeling in you... February 25 at 4:25pm · Like

Sujata Tibrewala ‎@Sangeetha you see souls hanging from the tree which is warm by the colours of the leaves and yet it does not give a comfortable feeling. I guess you are not confortable beacuse colours which are usually associated with happiness do not evoke a happy feeling here. And the tree keeps them rooted even in a turmoil.. February 25 at 4:28pm · Like

Trupti Godbole the skulls are hanging from the bare tree. this seems to say that mankind may find itself doomed because of what it has done to the planet. February 25 at 4:28pm · Like · 1

Sujata Tibrewala ‎@Girish you see various thinking minds much like our various personalities which keep our behavious in check. February 25 at 4:29pm · Like

Sujata Tibrewala Thanks Trupti.. You see mankind in doom here because we do not take enough care of the mother earth... February 25 at 4:30pm · Like

Sujata Tibrewala well so far we have doom to mankind. The smoky dark background, skulls hanging from the tree make us see the warm colours as eerie. In our discussion so far, we do not think that the atmosphere created here is soothing, it is something which makes us think because of paradoxes inbuilt, drak smoky, tree with bright leaves, skulls hanging which seem to be thinking but yet the fact that they are hanging is eerie.. The skulls could be thinking mind =s of man, various stages of man, or the cops in the mans's mind and the tree the source of their lives and hence may represent mother earth which keeps them rooted and s abused. I hope I did not miss out anything we discussed.. February 25 at 4:36pm · Like

Sujata Tibrewala what more can we find? anyone who has not expressed what they saw. anything else from those who already commented? February 25 at 4:38pm · Like

What Sujata had in mind when she painted

The serene heads hanging on a red tree could mean anything, starting from enlightenment, to violence, to our love hate relation with trees. The power of abstract open to interpretations.