02/03/2026
TALE OF THE HORSE 🐎✨
Although this piece echoes the spirit of the Horse Year, for me its a remembrance of an incident.
Once during a trip in India, when we were stranded in heavy traffic at late night — cars, auto rickshaws, speeding bikes everywhere — a horse named Gopal appeared with his rider, almost out of nowhere. Amidst the chaos, there he appears and stood. Steady. Majestic. Facing the path that leads up to the Ayyanar temple in the hills.
A horse… in the middle of that madness. Imagine that.
From that day onward, whenever we see a horse, we gleefully call out, “Gopal!” remembering that heroic, almost surreal moment of divine timing.
In many temples across India, terracotta horses are offered in gratitude — especially to divine guardians like 'Ayyanar' when prayers are answered or when protection is sought for individuals and villages. Made of clay, they stand stiff yet proud. But to all this they are not just merely as animals, but as sacred bridges between the human and the divine. Today, this very terracotta works crafted in miniature pieces as space decors and statements.
This work is the attempt to capture that spirit but with an animated joy, a gentle smirk of glee as the terracotta horses portrays to be. I imagined Gopal alive under the constellations, beneath the revolving dance of sun and moon, forever watchful.
Happy. Radiant. Ever ready to guide those who truly seek aid. So here's to the for the coming “galloping” times ahead 🤗
Hence my 'Tale of the Horse' — created for the recent exhibition led by .
Grateful for the initiative. Grateful for the incident. Grateful even for the trials of past February...
Adding the reminder to myself — ride the path in flow… with that happy smirk of glee. ✨🐎
