HEERAMAN URVETI-GOND ART-Madhya Pradesh-India-TREE OF LIFE-LION-BONDING-BIRD (HU 29)

Heeraman Urveti is the creator of this Gond art painting. There is a sense of figurative abstraction here in the way he chooses to depict the animals. The body of the crab seems to be the trunk of the tree. There is a wide variety of patterns that one can notice in this work. They add a textural depth to the figures portrayed here the usual motif of birds; can be seen up in the tree. One can, in fact, see two birds in colors similar to the Gond palette. This painting alludes to the fact that all organisms are connected to each other and their harmonious interrelationships are the driving force behind an ecosystem.