The Outsider

"In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger.

His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home

or the hope of a promised land." Albert Camus (The Outsider)

Monday, February 21, 2011

BHELAGHAR 2


Here is another example of an innovative BHELAGHAR, from Chotea a place 12 Kilometers from Biswanath Chariali, where a two storied house with bamboo and hay was made. The house was burn down to ashes after having a grand feast on the sankranti eve. Here is an artist to explore the medium little more in the time of Bhogali Bihu (the Magh Sankranti, harvesting festival Festival of assam). Photos are captured by Pranjal Baruti, field visited by Kapil Bora, Snehankar Chakraborty and Rupak Kar. 





















from Facebook Disposable House Group post:
At present I am looking at some art work made up of hey-stacks and bamboo sticks (not in Bronze or Fiber glass), located at a paddy field after the harvesting is over (not in Indian Art Summit Premise), where the artist even denies to put his tag (no printed catalog, no budding art-writers working in a R&D department for that). I might be a romantic but no, I am not a modernist or a revivalist. I am not a promoter of folk art and craft. I am not an NGO as well.


3 comments:

  1. thik ache....
    kajguli khoob bhalo laglo....

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  2. interesting documentation.. would like to know weather these hay stack figures are made by you or the villagers?

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