 While many of the paintings had an ornate decorative border that contained Lalitha Lajmi’s musings, her female self was always represented in an outdoor setting, with landscapes that were psychic projections. 
Neo-realistic depictions, abstract expressionistic pieces, studies in self-portraiture…. Sujay Sood checks out the veritable smorgasbord of exhibits that intrigued art aficionados
Intriguing Images
In its tenth edition, The Harmony Show exhibited the works of over 200 artists, shifting to the World Trade Centre to accommodate over 540 works. A veritable smorgasbord of styles and colour palettes; noteworthy amongst the exhibits were the neo-realistic (Nikhileshwar Baruah, Abir Karmakar, Kazi Nasir), the expressionistic (Krishan Ahuja, Krishen Khanna, Laila Khan Rajpal, G R Iranna), the vibrantly monochromatic (Jaideep Mehrotra, Nimisha Sharma, Seema Ghurraya, Avinash Thakker), the digital (Baiju Parthan, Samir Mondal) and the fractal which hovers between 2-D and 3-D (Pooja Irana, Shuvendu Sarkar, Anuj Poddar, Brinda Chudasama Miller).
Experiences of Infinity
The Artist’s Centre is an intimate gallery that accentuated the expansive nature of Prafulla Dahanukar’s Mindscapes series, a collection of abstract expressionist pieces characterised by horizontal strokes. Richly textured, these pieces represented Dahanukar’s experience of an infinity that stretched away laterally. "When you look up, there is the sky, but when you look around you, there is no limit." Displaying a vibrant palette of red,
yellow, and green, these ‘mindscapes’ reflected the mind’s escape from the shackles of the quotidian and into intimate contact with the essence of Brahman. While admitting that each piece was a spontaneous overflow that expressed her communion with the absolute, Dahanukar insisted that her pieces were motivated by elation. "My past is gone. I live for today."
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