You run around town like a fool, and you think that it's groovy Painting

watercolour on hand-made sekishu-shi paper This work couldn’t be further away from pre-fabricated, clean, set-piece art that goes through the motions. The joint must have been jumping when Darukhanawala painted this one. Movement, life and the gift of life abound in this picture. The slightly crumpled paper, its very realness and honesty make it a very real vitality where the reality of life is neither shunned nor idealized into sentimental beauty. There’s also an internal, near-sexual energy, tension between the lines that have a tensing up and releasing effect. However, each viewer will find his own associations and vision … their own truth. In Darukhanawala’s own words: ‘If, at a fundamental level, art is about truth and finding it, uncovering it, remembering it – and for me it undoubtedly is – then this work is a contribution to that lifetime’s work (in progress).’