Dawn at Cape Comorin

Cape Comorin is the most southern spot in India, where Gandhi’s ashes were thrown into the air. A unique sacred place for Hindu people where you can see both the sunrise and the sunset. The unmarried girls meet there on the day devoted to Shiva’s wife, Durga, and wait for the sun to rise over the ocean, wearing jasmine flowers on their hair.
The painting was made in Nov.2008 with an experimental technique: three levels of light and shade effects (the flowers, the human shapes and the choppy sea).