I recently returned to view this painting after thirty years. It was painted by a medical student portraying his friends who were surgically interested, watching an operation done in an archaic setting. This painting adorned different rooms at the Christian Medical College, Vellore in the past. Its present place is in the Director’s office.
I was given the permission to be alone to observe this painting for most part of a morning, which gave me time to connect with some of the students in this painting, with whom I have maintained some contact over the years.
I spent time meditating on the body language of the students which the painter captured with prophetic accuracy. Most of them have become temperamentally and behaviourally what the body language predicted about themselves.
It is an amazing painting that reveals and instructs about human formation!
By the time we are adolescents we have already imbibed our inner orientation from the tapestry of our experiences!
So childhood and adolescent years are formative years which need protection and promotion for integrative formation!
M.C.Mathew(texta and photo)
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