| India is changing rapidly, the India in which I grew up had a vastly different array of visual imagery then that of the India we know in the year 2007 , a relatively short period for substantial change, imagery that perhaps defined us to a certain extent, all of which are fast fading into nostalgic memories. I can still remember tools and utensils present during the years that I was growing up in kolkata; all archaic and misplaced for any society in the world, but they were more then just that, they were also our statement of independence, an economy that was closed and trying to figure it self out, a bygone era where value addition was not the norm but an economical, functional necessity.
I have in this series of paintings tried to capture some of this visual imagery, perhaps in an attempt to document an era fast being forgotten. |
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