Monday, June 8, 2015

A T.V SHOW , DELHI : 1979 ; Presenting Dr. P. Basu M.D

     "  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 .

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