Mohiner Ghora – Original Dry Pastel by Saikat Mondal

মহীনের ঘোড়াগুলো ঘাস খায় কার্তিকের জ্যোৎস্নার প্রান্তরে।

Where Jibanananda’s verse ends, a field of glowing horses begins.

This original dry pastel painting by Saikat Mondal draws from the dream-logic of Jibanananda Das’s poem:

Set beneath a pale moon before winter, this visual memory does not illustrate the poem — it listens to it. Four horses, wild yet stilled, graze in a glowing field of ochre and fire. The sky, painted in restless strokes of pink, violet, blue, and gold, evokes not a specific place but the rhythm of rural Bengal as Jibanananda once imagined it — suspended between decay and radiance.

The horses are marked in gestures, not details. The light does not settle; it pulses. This is a visual poem, not a landscape — an atmosphere of unresolved time, of longing made visible.

Framed in wood and covered with acrylic sheet, this dry pastel painting is ideal for readers of Bengali poetry, collectors of surreal rural memory, or homes that carry silence as part of their design.