A woman in a sari with a cloth bound over her eyes sits on a bench beside a heavily built, bare-chested, bearded man wearing a headband. Both are drawn in dark lines on a pale ground.

Blind King and Blindfolded Queen

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  • Acrylic Ink on Canvas
  • 33 × 20 in (height × width)
  • Edition of 75, signed and numbered

The story behind

I chose the blind king and his blindfolded wife because many that rule and are in power can see but are blind to the more important issues in life. I was also interested in the somewhat bizarre image of the blind head of state advised by someone who has voluntarily accepted blindness, the whole scene is in the dark, so to say.

Krishen Khanna, In My 100th Year (2024)
Detail: Dragged dark line over pale ground: the bound eyes and open mouth beside the great bearded head.
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