"THE ENCOUNTER"
EPILITHICS
BURNT WOOD
ASOK PUTIYAN (2000) |
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His forth series (sculpture): EPILITHICS
The saga of human existence and its transition is versified in the epics and allied literature. Epics sketch the pattern of life, governance, encounters, cultural outfits and traditions through oral or literary vocabulary. The epic characters convey the precipitation of typological characteristics of the social elite and their interactions. Narration of the social change, rhythm and progression is evident. The world of legends, folklore and myths draw from the life streams of the period, its ups and downs, heroes and heroines.
Here, the epilithics try to convey the lithical depiction of the epics. It shows the evolutionary hero, confrontation, fragmentation, elimination, escalation, association, independence and ecstasy. These experiences are conveyed through the sculptural compositions of burnt wood, which resembles the textured seasoned rock. Burnt wood dramatizes the effect of light, which falls upon it, and thus captures the attention of the viewer. Shadows put the sculptured volumes in a mythical state. The constitution of the composition shows the positive escalation as in the structure of an epic. The dark shadows propagate the illusion of the depth of the past and also peeps into the sanctum sanctorum of history.
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