Nature's Disposession

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Artist: Ramesh Hengadi

Medium: Poster colour and cowdung on cotton cloth

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Art form: Warli

Size with frame: 72x74 in / 183x188 cm

This piece is stretched on a wooden frame

Year: 2024 

Ramesh Hengadi comes from Maharashtra’s Warli tribe and has been painting in the 
Warli style since childhood. Warli life has a deep connection with nature and the earth, 
and the art is inspired by their natural surroundings and their lives as agriculturists.

Nature’s Dispossession engages with the environmental challenges that result from 
development and encroachment. The earth, depicted in two concentric circles, seems to 
float in a universe filled with stars. In the centre, tiny human figures portray a busy 
harvest scene, where the symmetry suggests a balance between nature and mankind. 
Surrounding this inner circle however, is a band of buildings, factories, cars, airplanes, 
a few trees: a bare earth, where natural life and human activity are minimised.