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The Chariot
The Tractor is a brilliant farming Marvel...It’s like a golden chariot on which a farmer is all setfor “agriculture pilgrimage” along with his day to day farming
companions We should help and contribute towards the Farmer so that a tractor wouldn’t become an exorbitant dream for him anymore...
The Father
Here is a pregnant father whose pregnancy is his imagination and the imagination is all about agriculture. Women give birth to babies and they are tipped as the best care givers in the world but men also go through the care giving phase though not many people acknowledge it. When it comes to farming and agriculture, men take out their 'motherly' nature and nurse the land and plants the way a mother does to her children. This role reversal in the farm land is beautifully conveyed through this sculpture. Bronze
The Plough
For the new generation of children a plough may look like a museum piece; a strange implement which perhaps they have seen only the encyclopedias or in the internet. But the fact is that even for the farmers plough is a dated farm implement which has been replaced by other machine assisted tilling tools. However, there are some farmers still in the world who use plough and at the other end of the plough is the fate of a family that includes even the older men and women in that family unit. The plough holds them together.
The Sickle
Perhaps, the new generation does not know much about the farmers' punctuality. They get up early in the morning, walk all the way to their fields and do their works till the day's end, and get back home and sleep early. Like the movement of the sun, they move their daily routines and all this while their closest aid is the sickle, a farm tool and a potential weapon at the same time. Here, the farmer is seen cooling him / herself at the shade of a monumental sickle whose blade is imaginatively turned into foliage.
The Daughter
Anywhere the world child labor is the most detestable thing. There are laws to do away with child labour but mainly due to poverty and need of the situation children are sucked into work places sometimes hazardous to their health and growth. But in the case of farmers, children are at times willing aids to their parents and at other times they are forced to do this work. Here a girl is shown carrying a pumpkin which at once represents the social burden of child labor and the satisfaction of her own effort in the field while carrying a produce.
The Tiffin
When food arrives on the dining table, whether it is at home or in the office space or even in a plush restaurant everyone thanks the chef and also the bearer of the food. But they all forget to acknowledge the real maker of the food; the farmer. Is farming such a thankless job? Each time we eat, the artist says that it is pertinent to thank the unknown producer of this food; the farmer who is neither hugely benefited nor adequately celebrated.
The Grace
Here is a lady farmer with an elongated neck at once symbolises beauty and clairvoyance. She could see future as well as fertility awaiting there. She is the embodiment of nature. And she adores her hair with a sweet corn cob. The monumental appearance of her head emphasises her presence in the narrative of agriculture.
A Fine Balance
Farm tools come again and again in the visual repertoire of the sculptor in this suite of works. The farm implements and the corporeal presence of a farmer are not separated by their material or make. They are an integrated whole. Here is the shovel is a pivotal tool in the farm work and at the end of the handle a farmer is seen making a balancing posture as if his careful use of the implement makes his life fruitful. Also it shows how important such a balance between body and the tools is important in his life.
The Glory
Like Grace, the Glory is a celebration of a farmer who carrying the thoughts about agriculture always in his mind. In the Grace we see a woman wearing a sweet corn cob in her hair showing the fertility of nature. Here, in the work, the Glory we see the male protagonist wearing a turban and on which a water-pump. Water is one predominant thought always in the mind of a farmer and water-pumps are integral to the farmers' lives. So dreaming up a water source is quite natural to a farmer.
Tree of Knowledge
This reminds the viewer of the banyan tree under which Buddha gained his enlightenment. Event he absent space resembles a Buddha. But the artist approaches it differently; all efforts to keep the earth green are done by the farmers but they remain absent in the final count. There are trees under which people take shelter, write poems about and celebrate in various different ways. But the farmer is mostly absent from these narratives. The artist pays tribute to the absent farmers who save the greenery for the posterity.
The Window
Often the farmers' kids do not want to get into the tiresome job of farming. They look out to the larger world from their limited frames and hope for the best in their lives. Yet, some are forced to go back to tilling and farm works against their wishes. But for the time being these children are hopeful and like cherubs in sylvan garden overgrown with farm creepers they see the world with a fresh and optimistic perspective.