Every morning, before the golden hour strikes, Puviyarasu Kannadasan sets out on his trusty bike with his companions: a canvas, an easel, a black pen and some paints. When he sees a sight that tugs at him, he stops, props up the easel and begins his work.
Wielding a black pen, he traces what is before him: be it an empty, quiet pastoral field, or a temple ground that spills chaotic energy. Bits and pieces of the town he grew up in — Arani in Tiruvallur — thus sprawls across Puviayarsu’s canvases, largely black-and-white. At his first-ever solo show titled Petrichor, in DakshinaChitra Museum, 28 such creations (both sketches and paintings) are on display.
