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Sarla Chandra's freshest new compositions are subliminal rocks and trees- forms as though worked out of the Golden thread that an imagination, only lost in a sabled world may concoct.
Sarla Chandra's art has not been static. I remember well, her earliest appealing figuratives of the mythological lore or the legends of this country! Those were turned out with loving care. Stylistically the works were in line with the mannerisms of the foregoing art of the past. But since then she has undergone quiet a change. She has absorbed the lessons of modernity fully.
The painter is in one way, a dreamer (if one can so put it) of the dreams that seem like the glimpses of another world, another reality of the basic five elements. Here we have both the sleeping as the waking mind in action. Her flights of imagination take her to the heights of a cosmic or metaphysical world due to her studies of natural sciences.
This only proves that humanity can release itself from its moorings meaningfully and lend itself completely to the creative process. They are in a way revealed to her by her anima-her true inner self. She has, at the same time, virtually created a fresh pictorial mode. If her inspiration is from the 'sleeping' mind her technique is the fruit of many years of work, as by the mulling over her medium.
The luminous colors of Sarla Chandra's work range from deeper greens to reds not commonly found in nature. Always subtly modulated, they glow and turn with many colors of flame and jewels.Her imaginative creatures are at once intricately conceived and totally determinate.
Sarla Chandra's work deserves to be called 'sacral' not because of its subject, but because it originates in the imaginal world itself- that region where images take on meaning, and meaning embodies itself in images.
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