Siddharth Muraly Nair
The Fish Shop
Ink on paper
Siddharth Muraly Nair
India
"I usually like to do scenes from my surroundings, giving them an extraordinary touch. This piece of work is a regular scene from my school bus, while it moved slowly in heavy traffic at a junction. The fish monger had a big white plastic tub filled with large fish. In his shack there were many cats too. Once my mummy and I went there to have a closer view. All fish looked the same, their eyes had the dead expression. All the cats were different colours, moods, even in the way they kept their tails. I imagine here that the cats became caretakers of the big fish tub!"
