by Nilanjan Das » Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:43 pm
The problem with art is that it has no guidelines, probably it begins from where all other guidelines end in our social life Ganesh. Art in any form is an expression, an expression of freedom of mind, how can such a freedom have any boundary? If you listen to the African drum beats to grunge music, you will realize how life of these musicians have created an impact for the creation of such music. Art has nothing called SHOULD BE, that is the sole beauty. Perse, the series created by you, people around you connected with the series at different levels, depending on how they know you. Some tried to imagine in their own way, some absolutely failed to derive anything out of it ( from the facebook discussion ), but it's you and only you who connected to it the most, rest can stay in a smooth transition of near and far. But did you care ? You did not, that is the honesty of art, it is for your expressions Ganesh, not about how much someone else can connect to those expressions. I personally want it to stay more like this than creating anything to which the mass can connect to. Then the language spoken by art will be spoken by politicians, thugs and law makers one day and there will be boundaries of should be and should not be all around it. Art is the silent language which can have the biggest impact, we had such an impact during our fight for Independence. Most of the creators in India were born during the oppression, if you read about the military dictatorships in South America, you will see huge number of artists like painters, song writers, poets, writers, thinkers etc were jailed and tortured to death so that their voice does not reach out to the mass. Even so many of the great Generals of war were musicians or writers. This is the reason am reading Jihad, to try and understand the point from where same thoughts separate out to two different forms of expressions. One leads to the bullets and calls for sacrifice ( we may agree or not agree to war, but it has existed from the birth of human beings ), while the other is the silent war. Artists learn to speak this unknown language of expression only through their agony and sufferings. Silence can not have a guideline, it is as simple as when you or me honestly try to connect to those feelings, expressions, sufferings and even happiness, we do not wish to be told how much do we connect. Some images make us madly fall in love with them, some make us so happy which can not be compared to any kind of happiness of the material world, that is the goal of art. How can a person who is surrounded by visions of making himself visible more than art even understand this ? Probably a person like that can try to guide others trying to make himself look important, but the art world has place for such thoughts, such laws, such law makers even. He can shout, or even shoot, I may smilingly die, but at the end of it I would still in capital letters say, WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO OR SAY ? Perhaps he will not hear me, or even understand me, but do we care ? Art will move on and hopefully and thankfully these trying to be important people will run away...... Only art has such power....
