A P Santhanaraj: When Drawing is an Illusion

"A line is a line, it is universal". A.P. Santhanaraj to his teacher K.C.S. Panikker. The eloquence of the canvas is such that it can be like a passage of time - one that leaves perhaps a trace, a wrinkle, a mosaic of tethered images or just the elements of unravelled riddles. Santhanaraj's oeuvre done over nearly a decade looks at the animated threshold of juncture as well as the fugitive forms of the human figure in which the quantum of matter is not just expression but the imperative creation of harmony against the backdrop of nature. The entire…