Museum Artwork Record
hookah
Artist: Dhiraj Khandelwal
Year:
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 4 × 3 ft. (121.92 × 91.44 cm)
The comparison between the smoke of the hookah and the ups and downs of life is amazing. Sometimes burning to ashes, then burning up again and then making life gurgle like a new puff...
His wrinkles, the depth of his hands and the smoke rising from the hookah, everything reflects the struggle and austerity that he has faced.
Look closely, each of his wrinkles is telling a single aspect of life... the deepened eyes and the lines on his hands are involuntarily connected to the hookah...one puff and one more puff is called life...
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Source and rights record.
Source institution: Cultural Exchanges Museum — artist-supplied archive
Rights status: Artist-supplied image for Museum exhibition use; publication is subject to the artist/Museum submission terms.
Source institution: Cultural Exchanges Museum — artist-supplied archive
Rights status: Artist-supplied image for Museum exhibition use; publication is subject to the artist/Museum submission terms.