A Chandigarh-based visual artist has made an optical illusion portrait of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji on the eve of 551st Prakash Parv of the first Sikh Guru. The portrait is kept at Gurdwara Shri Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib, Sector-34, Chandigarh. The artist, Varun Tandon said, “I made this portrait using 551 ‘Ek Onkar’ (opening words of Guru Granth Sahib).
On a closer look, you will see ‘Ek Onkar’ and if you look at the portrait from a distance, picture of Guru Nanak Dev will be visible. It is an optical illusion. I have used ‘Ek Onkar’ in 13 different colours and was made in seven days. The idea was to do something different on Gurupurab.” Tandon created the 6 feet portrait using 1,102 iron nails.
