Describing ‘The Scream’ as the ‘Mona Lisa’ of our times, Samanta was haunted by this work and intrigued by how difficult it is to define our emotions in present times. He created five works in this series, referring to ‘The Scream’ as a symbol depicting anything from cheer or excitement, to anguish, protest, grief or a face-off of emotion and time. Virginia Woolf’s, ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ and a ‘Stream of Consciousness’ become the portrait of the vague passage of thoughts in time in Scream V.

Written by Veeranganakumari Solanki Jamwal, Portraits in Time, 2016