Progress in art does not consists in expansion, but in an awarness of thelimits’
-Georges Braque.

And indeed it was an awarness of one’s own limition for every artist in the expansive space of Osho Tapoban. This awareness had a tendency to exceed & extend further form an introspective confinement & form the confinement fo art midium aswell, be it canvas, clay, metal etc. The result-provacative site specific art presentations by 26 young art innovators.

The energy that wanders in the preplexity of an entity always whispers to its every envolving forms the mystery of being. Perhaps this is why instincts rejuvinate. But we the pratial product of our own conditioning art short knowledge to understand what it is about. Art in the canvas of time has been portrayed by many as man’s nature through which one attempts to magnify & understand the essential energy the every essence of human attitude.

Sutra art centre, an organization established by young artist to promote the non-conventional method of creating art, brought 26 different attitudes together in the garden of Joy - Osho Tapoban to accept the existential nature with open arms through a metaphysical nature of their own. Hence, Coaxing the nature was what this week - long art practice entitled.

Ashmina Ranjit as an art presentation she outlines her own shadow on the ground then jots down the time within the drawing of her sadow. ‘we try to trap the lost moment of our own sadows in the past but never succeed. Perhaps not so, but sometimes we do actually succeed in making the passing moments immortal simply by remembering them then letting go’ - Ashmina Ranjit.

The sadows of confusion controlls lazer-like configuration of thoughts, one penetrating another at a blink of a moment. Ashes of memories controll the mind to choose the material objects which create yet other distorted longings. A will to break form the already formed ideas of consumerism in art & denying the fact that this aggressive yet simple concept of his would introduce a new genre called conceptual art. It would be looked upon as non conventional method for expressing creative communition.

Sujan Chitrakar has trapped his own breathing in plastic bags & tied them on trees. ‘We let go a fragment of life each time we breath. what separates our from an existential nature is our own skin. It’s this layer which stops us from merging with the air. This is the reason how & why we exist & experience the mystical phenomenon of nature. It is the magic of feeling the wind blow on your face :- Sujan’s philosophy.

Such concept of life & beyond came together in the fall of summer 30th Nov to 6th Dec 2003. 26 artists stepped ofrom within to express the inner drama that activated their behaviour.
The future of life cannot be seen. Only the present concides with our views which is very much materialized by the long nostalgic yesterdays. We have to turn around to see what is bahind us &when we do there would only remani figures of recollections’- Sunil explains his conceptsas the pastes fragmented paper figure on the stairs to let the spectators witnesshis metaphoricalexpression.
Behind the deceptive invisible circus of every incident, there lise a true drama of being alive. Those who understand the deeper level of reality are able to channal the perpetual abstract energy whose accurate objects give if a materialistic shape. Hence a moment of eternity becomes mortal. Perhaps this is how mortuls being to feel immortality : When art makes us feekl eternity in a span of a moment. Eventully it is about nothing & about everything. Everything is in a constant phase of transformation. Nothing ever ends & life itself is a process endless art.

‘I think we are not honest with ourselves, we grow up with an idea that we are different from anything else thaat is alive, if we realize that we are no more important from the leaf that falls then perhaps we might able to take hold of existence & make it more workable’- Ken Unsworth, an Installation artist,explores the trail of existence & vagvely difines the momentary nature of Installation art.
‘I belive there are three elements of human nature - the ancient dwellers, mordern science & moneyminded society. The world we live in is the outcome of this three confrontation. But what is comming out is just confuion as these three set off to find the absolute truth - Speaks salil on the performance he presented at Osho Tapoban.

And surely if there is a word that defines the present scenario of the world it is confusion. Confusion causes frustration which consequently develops into anger & violence. Therefore soul-stirring pain was a common factors used in most of the art presentations. Anger was a theme on which yet another artist Prithivi expressed himself through his performance.