Information Artist: Alok DangiMedium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions (A2 Print): 42 x 59.4 cmDimensions (Framed Print): 45 x 63 cmDimensions (Unframed Original): 61 x 45.7 cmDimensions (Framed Original): Please enquireDate: 2026Condition Report: Brand New. Please email [email protected] for any queries with respect to the original artwork. Description Limited edition print run (total of 10 available), each being signed and numbered by the artist. For enquires relating to the original artwork, please email [email protected] The composition is framed between a pair of weathered teal doors which serve as a literal and conceptual threshold, drawing the eye inward to a compact barber shop alive with accumulated detail. The seated customer, absorbed in the daily newspaper while scissors hover closely behind, anchors the scene in quiet, unhurried ordinariness. The flanking doors serve as an unofficial archive of urban Indian life. Bollywood posters, advertisements for chai and cotton mills, hotel tariff signs, railway notices, and torn calendar pages jostle for attention in an accumulation that leaves the viewer struggling to rest their eyes. India remains a country steeped in maximalism, and this piece respects that tradition. The attentive viewer, however, is rewarded for their patience. Central to the drama throughout, the work's quietly unsettling central conceit is hidden in plain sight. The barber is blind, his white and red cane resting unobtrusively against the stool to the left. The revelation reframes the entire scene, transforming a moment of apparent ordinariness into something altogether more charged.
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