Art Form #7 : Svayambhu
Preface :
Personally, 'growing-up' has never been easy due to horde of uncertainties and insecurities involved.
And does this process ever end while we live?
Post Inspiration : The art installation titled 'Svayambhu/Swayambhu' (which means 'Self-made') by Anish Kapoor.
Here the artist shows a huge block of brick passing through a doorway and in the process reshaping itself.
Art Form #7 : Svayambhu
These past few days
she has been reminiscing
her school years
not just those
once-familiar everyday faces
inside packed classrooms,
black boards and brown benches,
stacked books and ringing bells,
the rush in narrow corridors..
but all of those times,
that coming of age journey
so far, as a whole
To tell you the truth, the journey
has been quite ordinary
nothing special
an average student
pretending to be competitive
while trying her best not to be seen
so she could spend her time
with books
not to ace her exams, no
but because
books, they were her portals
open, unrestricted, unbiased
yet compact
so she squeezed through them
day in, day out
so much so that
she had lost count of them all
after all these years,
as the bittersweet nostalgia
sets in
she find those doors,
still open, warm
strangely easy to navigate
her traces still etched
across walls, rough
silent and bloodied..
say, would you believe her
if she told you
growing-up has in fact been
shrinking to her very core, it's size
a mere fraction of the period
that ends this line.
- Krutika Tawde
Postface :
This art makes me realise this self-crafted development of ours is the most powerful and fulfilling journey.
By the term 'growth' we tend to see things on outside getting bigger as we grow - physique, money, fame etc. but on the inside, the vital development happens at nano level cue in the quantum mechanics.
Personally, 'growing-up' has never been easy due to horde of uncertainties and insecurities involved.
And does this process ever end while we live?
Post Inspiration : The art installation titled 'Svayambhu/Swayambhu' (which means 'Self-made') by Anish Kapoor.
Here the artist shows a huge block of brick passing through a doorway and in the process reshaping itself.
Art Form #7 : Svayambhu
These past few days
she has been reminiscing
her school years
not just those
once-familiar everyday faces
inside packed classrooms,
black boards and brown benches,
stacked books and ringing bells,
the rush in narrow corridors..
but all of those times,
that coming of age journey
so far, as a whole
To tell you the truth, the journey
has been quite ordinary
nothing special
an average student
pretending to be competitive
while trying her best not to be seen
so she could spend her time
with books
not to ace her exams, no
but because
books, they were her portals
open, unrestricted, unbiased
yet compact
so she squeezed through them
day in, day out
so much so that
she had lost count of them all
after all these years,
as the bittersweet nostalgia
sets in
she find those doors,
still open, warm
strangely easy to navigate
her traces still etched
across walls, rough
silent and bloodied..
say, would you believe her
if she told you
growing-up has in fact been
shrinking to her very core, it's size
a mere fraction of the period
that ends this line.
- Krutika Tawde
Postface :
This art makes me realise this self-crafted development of ours is the most powerful and fulfilling journey.
By the term 'growth' we tend to see things on outside getting bigger as we grow - physique, money, fame etc. but on the inside, the vital development happens at nano level cue in the quantum mechanics.
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