Border Between City and Village

My art practice is an opportunity for me to relive the nostalgia of village life, while living in the city. It is a much needed space for me to explore the relation and sensibilities of both the world. I belong from a village in Amreli district from Saurashtra region of Gujarat. The place has its own system and associations, no matter how simple and secluded it is from the city. I have always drawn inspiration from the spontaneity of village life. When I see myself in the crowd of the cities, I feel a kind of nostalgia of the village life. There is a space in my mind for the calm character of the village that I am always exploring through my art practice. The city has its abrupt characteristics where constructions happen every now and then. There are numerous activities, like the industrial and business activities taking place in the cities, which dominate the aura of the place. Also cities are inevitably engaged in a give and take relationship which becomes the dominant way of living. The cities are also into a kind of empty chatter which is only filling gaps between people in a way that looks very customary. One cannot also deny the fact that cities are dynamic in nature by offering immense possibilities of new interactions and relations.