The Magic Lantern

The origins of certain paintings lie buried in a seemingly distant past. So that, even when painters like Jai Zharotia decide to paint a flower or an equine, or what have you - a thousand earlier impressions have already left their mark on their mental plate. From childhood upwards these have been unconsciously amassed. Impressions of leaves and trees and winged creatures and so on, in a work like his, are invested with a particular order of haunting unfamiliarity of which the functioning-in -the -present -moment active part may know but little. In…