Mrinal Dey, a MFA from Indira Kala Sangeet University, Chattisgarh, India 2005-07, is also a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York 2010; The Elizabeth Greenshields foundation grant, Montreal, Canada & China Government scholarship in 2008. “They are, all, without an exception, depicted in a manner that is eerily grotesque and yet identifiably human. Slits for eyes, bulbous noses, thick - set lips and jaws, a baldness that places the pointedness of the ears in sharp focus and a neck – or the very pronounced lack of it – attaching the large rotund face to a flabby, disproportionate body, highlight my disturbance .The colours I use are all solid enough to carefully avoid any merging with the textured backgrounds I create. This solidity enhances the boldness of my figure endowing them with the intended quality of both awe and repulsion”.