The Black Truth - 3 (2016) Painting by Ranjeet Singh Singh

Most of the early school days in my childhood, I have spent with tribal children in Jharkhand. They were my classmates, became my friends and that association continues. Due to their poor economic conditions many of them could not pursue their studies as their parent’s earnings were lesser than the basic wages. They had to support themselves and help their parents working menial jobs as daily wage labourers.
As I pursue my artistic endeavours, the lives of labourers have always been focus of my subject matter. So the imageries of coal mines and the life of labourers never left my artistic imagination. Through the brush strokes of mine, all those visuals of struggle, hardship and poor lifestyle come alive on my canvases. To understand the subject on a profound level and capturing the moments in frames, camera is a new normal in my artistic process.