A truck piled with logs lurches diagonally across a grey canvas, its big wheels in the foreground. A labourer in ochre is wedged among the logs at the upper left.

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  • Acrylic Ink on Canvas
  • 21.5 × 33 in (height × width)
  • Edition of 75, signed and numbered

The story behind

The wheels and tyres of this monster are brushed violently as is the ground on which they rotate creating an uneasy sense of instability or rush. Clearly this is not a happy painting which flatters the viewer’s eye. It would have been a travesty to convert a labourer bludgeoned by bouncing logs in a ghoulish machine into a delicious pattern of coloured harmonies.

Krishen Khanna, Images in My Time (2007)
Detail: The labourer's upturned face among the logs: heavy loaded strokes of ochre and white over grey.
Detail

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