In a recent essay titled Collaborations with the Cosmos, the writer-curator Ranjit Hoskote wrote: “…Kallat has declared himself open, in recent years, to the suggestions of rain, wind and fire; he permits himself to follow the trace of the brush or the contour of the cutout, rather than to guide it; he attends to the riddling illuminations of the Rorschach technique, the collage, and cadavre exquis.”

Continuing further from some of his elemental drawings, in the Untitled (Emergence) Drawings, Jitish Kallat sets up a three-part interaction between colourless matt lacquer, black acrylic epoxy and compressed air. Over a hand-drawn graph that undergirds the work, the emergent image produces a sense of deep tunnelling with a delicate interplay of darkness and luminosity. These works evoke botanical and topographical imagery that reveal the signatures of generative growth, evolution and entropy.