The deliberate avoidance of any background in the paintings foregrounds Ramakrishna’s formal, compositional, and symbolic enquiries. By placing the highly-detailed depictions of the artist’s muses against flat, bold, and strong colours, Ramakrishna suspends each of the eleven women — Lux, Roopashree, Romi, Shuchika, Charisma, Kavitha, Chandu, Arpitha, Sneha, Hitha, Deepti — and herself, on a surface that elevates their position, their presence, and their feelings.
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