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Scribble for art
Even mere scribbling can be beautiful. This was evident from an art show ‘Antarlin’ in black ink by Punam Zutshi that concluded at Arpana Fine Arts Gallery this week.
Itgrabbed attention of the people wanting to see art with different perspectives and in a new form. Punam Zutshi, a sociologist by profession did her first solo show ‘Lifelines’, in 2003.
It had brushwork. These works look like manuscripts. The art of calligraphy has been a source of inspiration to the artist. She says that she in her childhood she used to copy calligraphy done by her maternal uncle.
It absorbs
Pressure of studies put her interest in art on the back- burners. She became a sociologist but she experienced no joy. Love for art forced her to take up pen and ink once again.
“The work done by Punam shows a sense of inherence, of a going within absorption, or Antarlin. It seems simple but is extraordinary. It has depth. It explores nature and tells about the inner as well as the outer cosmos,” feels professor Shail Mayaram.
Though they are mere dots, curling and unfurling lines yet they have a lot of things of nature to discover.
One is able to visualise the whole world in them. Some tell about plants and trees, some about a cultivated land, the ants climbing the mountains, the deep valleys and the humming and buzzing world.
It’s like a craft or the whirling lila of the spiral and automatic writing. But all her works are untitled so one is free to imagine.
“Though the work is monotonous yet it shows the meditative quality of the artist,” says artist Veer Munshi.
ANJUM RAEES
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