FOR MILON
Poem By
RANJIT HOSKOTE
Steps
mapping out
the premises of space and horizon
Steps
setting up symmetries,
assymetries,
broken shards of space
Steps
calling halt to motion,
calling the occasion
to its climax,
to its closure.
and if the footfall
should evaporate,
the trace remains:
the trace remains in paint.
"Milon's colours claim a bright intrepidity. They organize themselves in a dramatic way. Milon creates a colourful world made up of throbbing lines, persuasive textures and ever changing colours. Milon creates a world of forms and colours which are larger than life. In a way it is a world of magic, as modern as it is ancient..."
Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni
"Milon is no dispassionate observer. His is an art that emphases the values of compassion : following after the goodness whose presence he invokes in his paintings, Milon Mukherjee has learned to accept the violence of the universe without permitting it to corrode his emotional capacities for nurturing and love."...
Ranjit Hoskote
