Anujath Sindhu Vinaylal recreates the world around him in exceptional detail in a series of sketches on show at Durbar Hall Art Gallery. ‘Around me, a world of wonders’, that opened in Kochi on May 14, contains 70 selected drawings done by him over a period of eight years. The drawings feature the people, animals, places and things he encounters in daily life.
The everyday scenes, however, turn into joyful, compelling and curious images in his frames. Anujath treats each of his subjects with utmost care. From a waddling duck to a dog chasing its tail, a woman cleaning fish, or his favourite eating place, a pile of jackfruit, a bull resting in the Thekkinkaadu Maidan in Thrissur or the Ganapathy Vilas Tiffin House, the semi-rural landscape of his hometown bursts into life in his drawings. “These are things I see every day, I am just documenting them as they are,” he says.
The images are also deeply connected to him. “I have fond memories of Ganapathy Vilas. I would eat here on my way home from school and they would reserve two pazhamporis for me.”
