Sathya N Prabhu Art Studio
Playing time | 24x24 | Acrylic
Playing time | 24x24 | Acrylic
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24x24 inches | Acrylic on canvas | 2021
- Canvas: Professionally stretched canvas
- Frame: External frame included
- Glass: None
- Ready to Hang: Yes
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About this Painting
The cowrie shells are thrown. The pieces move. Someone groans. Someone laughs. The game of Thayam — the ancient Tamil board game that has been played in South Indian homes for centuries, long before Ludo had a name — is underway, and nothing else in the world matters right now.
Artist Sathya N Prabhu captures this joyful, competitive, utterly absorbing scene of women at play with the warmth, sharp observation, and classical figurative grace that defines her practice. Playing Time is a painting about the particular pleasure of a game that everyone knows — the strategy, the luck, the teasing, the triumph. The cross-shaped board, the cowrie shells, the women leaning in: every detail is a memory for anyone who grew up in a South Indian household where Thayam was the game that brought everyone to the floor.
A painting about the games that held families together — and the women who always played them best.
About this work
- Original painting — sold
- Signed by the artist, with certificate of authenticity
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