Ohida Khandakar

Dark Flower

Dream of the Moro (panel 2), watercolor and golden foil on paper, 16 x 24 inches, 2018. A solitary male figure in traditional dress — wide floral skirt, embroidered boots, and cross-body strap — holds a pistol in one hand and a small red rose in the other, rendered in fine line drawing with minimal color washes on raw paper.

Watercolour on paper, 18 × 12 inches each, 2019. Four panels exploring dreamlike, visceral compositions in which the human body merges with organic and botanical forms — figures dissolving into dark rose, grey, and black washes.

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Watercolour on paper, 18 × 12 inches each, 2019

Dark Flower (panel 4), watercolor on paper, 18 x 12 inches, 2019. A reclining figure draped in a dark patterned textile, a large red apple with green sprouting leaves resting where the head should be, Bengali script visible on the fabric. A reaching dark hand emerges at right against blossoming pink washes.
Panel 1
Dark Flower (panel 2), watercolour on paper, 18 x 12 inches, 2019. A prone female figure with dark flowing hair reaches forward across a ground of crimson washes, surrounded by large botanical forms — a vivid green leaf and dark seed pods — with a small medicine dropper above.
Panel 2
Dark Flower (panel 3), watercolour on paper, 18 x 12 inches, 2019. An abstracted, visceral composition of interlocking limbs and organic forms in dark rose, grey, and black washes, dissolving the boundary between the human body and fluid matter.
Panel 3
Dark Flower (panel 4), watercolour on paper, 18 x 12 inches, 2019. A reclining figure draped in a dark patterned textile, a large red apple with green sprouting leaves resting where the head should be, Bengali script visible on the fabric.
Panel 4

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