A review of Art Musings’ recent Online trunk show titled, ‘Memory Traces’ that until August 15, 2020, featured the works of artist Smriti Dixit. In the recent Online Trunk Show hosted by Art Musings,we stepped into the world of artist-seamstress Smriti Dixit and her found objects. The show made us privy to a collection of nine artworks, each named after a Nayika (heroine) of Indian classical aesthetics fame. The works were visceral, laying are the construction of each, forming pieces that evoked a slurry of emotions.‘The process in my work is like a tree, slowly and steadily gripping onto its roots, and taking shape and form as it grows.
IN SCHOOL, I REMEMBER IT WAS KABIR who was the easiest among the poets that lived inside our Hindi textbook. There was this directness, this familiar angst in his words that spoke to us like truths spoken by the class back-bencher. Because the backbencher knew stuff. The backbencher saw stuff that even teachers didn’t.
The earliest source of music in India is the Samaveda and it opens with this line: ‘Agna ā yāhi vītaye’ which translates as ‘O Agni, come to the feast’. To a musician, this invitation to Agni, the god of fire, is perhaps a prayer to be touched by fire. To be granted the gift of ‘Duende’.
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