The Open Studio / Komal Singh
Komal Singh
The Last Samurai
Blue fire behind him, cold water at his feet
Blue fire climbs the cloth like breath on a cold morning.
Under the straw hat, no eyes. Only a mouth that has decided.
The blade is lit orange at its edge, the last warm thing here.
His robe comes apart into ash and ink.
Water jumps white around his feet.
Below, his shadow waits in the grey, holding still for him.
The work
The Last Samurai is an acrylic painting from 2024 by Komal Singh. A lone swordsman stands in shallow water. A straw hat hides his eyes. Pale blue flame rises around him like smoke and his dark robes break into flecks of orange and black. Water splashes up at his feet. His shadow falls into the still surface below. Singh lives in Faridabad. Her college is Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Delhi University. She also makes paper animations from her own drawings.
- Theme
- Stillness before the strike
- Material
- Acrylic
- Size
- 121 cm
- Year
- 2024
- Framed
- No
- About the artist
- Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Delhi University
- From
- Faridabad
- Code
- RC-739
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…
