How artist Reba Hore’s broken leg inspired her unique journal
Live MintIn 2004, four years before she died at the age of 82, artist Reba Hore, who had a relatively reclusive career in spite of her exceptionally fine sensibility, broke her leg for the third time. Hore christened it, with a touch of self-deprecating humour, as “The Broken Foot Journal”, filling it with sketches and drawings of scenes she witnessed from her home or remembered from times past, interspersed with brief poems and observations in Bengali and English. Evidently, the works on display are a record of a difficult period of Hore’s life, when she remained confined to her home in Santiniketan in West Bengal, along with her husband and fellow artist Somnath, and their daughter Chandana, who is an artist as well. “The heart flutters, I fight for air.” Her drawings remain charged with a narrative energy, holding in the welts and strokes of colour the story of an artist’s—and a woman’s—consciousness.
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