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Puja Mondal, Matrescence, 2025

Puja Mondal

Matrescence, 2025
Watercolour on Nepali paper pasted on ply-board
56 x 119 cm
22 x 46 7/8 in
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Matrescence: A Meditation on Birth, Nature, and the Sacred Solitude of Becoming This work unfolds as a contemplative landscape of intimate vulnerability and quiet power, wherein the pregnant body emerges...
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Matrescence:
A Meditation on Birth, Nature, and the Sacred Solitude of Becoming





This work unfolds as a contemplative
landscape of intimate vulnerability and quiet power, wherein the pregnant body
emerges as sanctuary.





Rendered against a luminous field of
intricately painted grove, the solitary figure (the protagonist in this
painting) claims her space with profound introspection. The surgical
instruments and clinical light hovering nearby articulate the anxieties
inherent in modern obstetrics, yet they remain suspended in a larger narrative
of trust and surrender. The empty cradle speaks to collective anticipation, to
the nesting impulse that reorganizes our very existence.





Yet it is the enveloping verdant ground—a
lush threshold of botanical abundance—that ultimately contains and reframes the
scene. It indicates a deep belief in me resulting in a philosophy: birth as
fundamentally natural, an uncharted territory best navigated through spiritual
yielding yielding to nature. While clinical control is essential, but overall
it is a process that override clinical coldness with a warm mysticism akin to
the creative force of nature.





Matrescence thus becomes a radical
reclamation of gestation as an aesthetic and philosophical experience, where
solitude transforms into a profound communion with nature's timeless rhythms.
The work, conceived in pregnancy and completed post-partum, bears witness to
this transformative passage—a visual hymn to motherhood's awesome complexity.

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