" A DIALOGUE WITH NATURE "
DELHI TV PRESENTS PHANI BASU AND HIS WASTE - WOOD SCULPTURE-S
IN " P A N A R M A " DATES : 31 .7 . 1979
INTERVIEWER : MRS. MANJU V. PANDEY.
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From time immemorial wood has been used as a medium of Art . We have among us Dr, Phani Basu who has selected wastw-wood or dead wood in the Field of his Art.
Phani Basu is Unique in the sense that he combines Science and Art in the way that he is a medical specialist and at the same time a poet, a play - wright , a painter, a writer and now a Waste - wood sculptor .
To day , we have quite a few pieces of his works on waste-wood / fire-wood / even wild wood with natural bends and creative sculpting by Dr. Phani Basu .
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Mrs Pandey ; Dr. Phani Basu, how is it that you took up Waste -woodwood as the particular Medium of your artistic expressions ?
P.B : Well there was a situation or a coincidence ,About 20 years back when I first came to
Delhi., I was fed with my idea that Delhi was a ' Cultural - desert ' and nothing grew here to inspire an artist or a poet and I almost experienced it , So naturally with my love for Poetry and other branches of visual Art I felt frustrated and deserted , I even desired to leave Delhi and go back to Calcutta .
Then one day , while visiting some tomb / monument in Safdarjung area , I suddenly found a deep green robust CACTUS growing on a desert-land defying the hostile Summer Sun and trying to declare itself
That very moment I got my faith back . It inspired me to think that can also grow here and be Expressive , So I defied the negative situation I was given and decided to grow and be Crative. From that day on wards I went on searching and searching to know how plant life reacted to this Delhi climate, Like this CACTUS or otherwise !? This led me to the new and interesting discovery i.e finding expression even among dead , waste or wild wood rejected by all .
DELHI TV PRESENTS PHANI BASU AND HIS WASTE - WOOD SCULPTURE-S
IN " P A N A R M A " DATES : 31 .7 . 1979
INTERVIEWER : MRS. MANJU V. PANDEY.
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From time immemorial wood has been used as a medium of Art . We have among us Dr, Phani Basu who has selected wastw-wood or dead wood in the Field of his Art.
Phani Basu is Unique in the sense that he combines Science and Art in the way that he is a medical specialist and at the same time a poet, a play - wright , a painter, a writer and now a Waste - wood sculptor .
To day , we have quite a few pieces of his works on waste-wood / fire-wood / even wild wood with natural bends and creative sculpting by Dr. Phani Basu .
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Mrs Pandey ; Dr. Phani Basu, how is it that you took up Waste -woodwood as the particular Medium of your artistic expressions ?
P.B : Well there was a situation or a coincidence ,About 20 years back when I first came to
Delhi., I was fed with my idea that Delhi was a ' Cultural - desert ' and nothing grew here to inspire an artist or a poet and I almost experienced it , So naturally with my love for Poetry and other branches of visual Art I felt frustrated and deserted , I even desired to leave Delhi and go back to Calcutta .
Then one day , while visiting some tomb / monument in Safdarjung area , I suddenly found a deep green robust CACTUS growing on a desert-land defying the hostile Summer Sun and trying to declare itself
That very moment I got my faith back . It inspired me to think that can also grow here and be Expressive , So I defied the negative situation I was given and decided to grow and be Crative. From that day on wards I went on searching and searching to know how plant life reacted to this Delhi climate, Like this CACTUS or otherwise !? This led me to the new and interesting discovery i.e finding expression even among dead , waste or wild wood rejected by all .
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