Sohan VK’s Instagram posts are inundated with messages of love and positivity. Here’s why. Over the past seven months, the Kozhikode-based artist has been sketching portraits of strangers he encounters in daily life and gifting the art works to them. He then posts a video of their reaction on his Instagram page. His posts get hundreds of likes and shares, but Sohan’s takeaway is the joy he sees on his subject’s face when he or she gets a least-expected portrait.
He prefers to sketch the people who tend to go “unnoticed” — an auto driver, a tea seller, a shop attendant, a corporation worker, a security guard, a traffic cop, or a lottery-ticket seller….
