Mainly my art practice is based on physical
environment and its conflict with the artificial environment. The physical
environment consists with the living and non-living components. Unfortunately,
the natural environment has been under tremendous threat due to never ending
human greed. The lands are mindlessly being excoriated by us through agonizing
mechanical process. The
poignant saga regarding the issues of land acquisition, environmental and
migrant crisis and modern age slavery comes into my mind as myself being a
locale from a suburban area.
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| Artist : Ghanashyam Latua |
I am
currently working with a long and time consuming method of creating layers like
formation of a land for many years. It continues then by pecking and skinning
the paper with a sharp tool, which defines the violence towards it due to human
interference to acquire resources for industrial and ‘developmental’ purposes.
The skin of the paper is the metaphor of
the land to me and the method of pecking represents the human rapacity in form
of the encroaching land. Before pecking, I use to do some treatment on the paper. It
might be an application of water colour tint, soft pastel, charcoal, pen strokes
or might be left the paper un-treated as it is.
I have been constantly encountering the
changing features of these landscapes from my childhood at my ancestral village near Kharagpur, Jhargram and
during my student life at Shantiniketan, Bolpur. I have explored the spiritual
affinity and relationship between the man and nature through my works. It
questions the burning social issues like encroaching and land grabbing, which
changes the whole ecology of a landscape and the people depending upon it. The
endless human greed has lead towards a socio-political disharmony due to
misinterpretations of modernism.
In that
sense my works are empathic reaction towards these issues as we are constantly
being enslaved by our own greed and ecstasy of power in a capitalist society.
By getting divorced from the nature day by day, we have murdered our own divine
and spiritual self.
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by
Art Blogazine Team
Bombay
Tathi Premchand