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The artist himself believes "A painting is simply a painting - a play of light and color... Every painting has a seed which germinates in the next painting. A painting is not limited to one canvas. I go on adding an element and that's how it evolves... There is a kind of metamorphosis in every canvas and the metamorphosis never ends." (Meera Menezes, 'The Meditative Brushstroke', Art India, vol. 3, issue 3, July - September 1998, Mumbai, p. 69.) Gaitonde's technique of meticulously applying then removing paint with a palette knife allows him to control his canvas to a startling exactitude. However, this laborious process has resulted in a very limited number of works, making each painting extremely rare.