The artist in me expresses one’s belief in the Indian culture and traditions conspicuous. I try, through my art to open new horizons of awareness for those who are hitherto alien to many of matrimonial customs, as has been practiced by the Indian society.
On arrival in Tarumitra, seeing the greenery, a recent event of my life came forth as an idea, which I shared with Shambhavi and with her encouragement, I decided to have my installation – Life Goes On, a marriage of art and tradition.
After my sister got married, my wife kept insisting that
I keep mauri, the headgear of the bridegroom in the bamboo grove of the bride’s previous dwelling. It is one of the Indian customs that the mauri of the bridegroom is positioned in the bamboo grove with a hope that
the burgeoning of the bamboo will bring simultaneous growth of the progeny. The ‘insisting voice’ of my wife had somewhere remained with me and came back with a flash seeing around me the shining dark green, a symbol of fertility. My installation consists of such mauris which I have set up in the banswari, the bamboo situated in the compound of Tarumitra.