The Open Studio / Komal Singh
Komal Singh
Akaza
A boy caught in the eye of a demon
Blue the colour of a cold night pressing on a window.
Black stripes fall across the face like bars.
Pink lashes tear open at the edges.
In the wet dark of the eye a small boy shouts in gold.
Sparks of white light cross him and do not burn.
The paper keeps its white border, a quiet room around a storm.
The work
Komal Singh paints Akaza in 2025 with simple acrylic colour on smooth 300gsm paper. The title is the name of a demon in the Japanese anime Demon Slayer. Singh fills the sheet with one close eye. Dark stripes run across a blue face. Pink lashes open like torn cloth. Inside the eye a small boy looks back in gold light. Singh studies at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College at Delhi University. She lives in Faridabad. She also turns film scenes into paper animation for short online videos.
- Theme
- Fear in reflection
- Material
- Acrylic on 300gsm smooth paper
- Year
- 2025
- Edition
- 1 of 4
- Framed
- No
- About the artist
- Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Delhi University
- From
- Faridabad
- Code
- RC-736
In the artist’s words
I have uploaded one video which is my recent insta reel, in the video I have shown short scene from kung fu panda 1 into paper animation, and then I have also painted one po painting with acrylic colous and with editing the paper drawings comes to life. There was no hardest part, it's just that it takes a lot of time and my patience. Next, the other one ( girl painting) is my original artwork,this painting shows the Hope and Light. The Goddess of hope and light, in the form of the same girl who is consumed in darkness, comes and break her free from the darkness through a…
