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Employing techniques used in early medieval Christian art, Anjolie Ela Menon incorporates a frontal perspective, a tendency towards figural elongation, and an averted head in her painting. Working on masonite panels, Menon enhances the finely textured surface of her paintings by burnishing the finished work with a soft dry brush, creating a glow found also in the wood panel altarpieces of Medieval Europe. Learning these techniques while studying abroad in Paris, the artist chooses to portray local Indian men and women from around her studio at Nizamuddin in New Delhi. In this work she instills the solemnity and reverence found in Christian art with her colorful native culture, illustrating a moment of silent communion between a father, son and their goats.