Untitled (Wounds Series)

Many of Somnath Hore's works capture his response to the brutal reality of his immediate surroundings, particularly the poverty and famine in West Bengal and political violence in Northeastern India. In the 1970s, Hore employed a unique technique of creating prints on uncolored paper pulp from molds made of cement, which he called Wounds. The result was a surface of varying texture, that simulated the appearance of "skin and flesh pierced by bullets, grazed by shots, ripped open by knives, battered by heavy sledgehammers, and spoilt by unattended gangrenes oozing blood and pus." (P. Ray, 'Somnath Hore and the Wounds', Somnath Hore, New Delhi, p. 8)