June

The love story of Sohni Mahiwal is common not only to Punjab, where Sohni’s grave is, in the river Chenab, but to the entire nation. The device of dividing space, painting within painting, is the distance between the lovers that Sohni sought to bridge by plunging into the river.

The fine spiral treatment of the water is inspired by several schools of Indian miniature painting and the upward pointing finger of Mahiwal points to the transcendence of earthly love into spiritual love, in the Sufi tradition.

This doomed love story is in the tradition of many such stories. This was chosen so that the artist could paint her favorite motif of 20 years - water.