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‘Naika & the Tree Trunk’ (3)
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VedNayar says: Last year, as soon as the summer started, I fell ill. I shifted to Jiji’s house in Paonta Sahib for recouping because the climate is not polluted there, Himalayan mountains start from there, Yamuna enters the plains there & Guru Gobind Singh lived there.
‘While recouping, every morning, when the darkness of the night was about to leave and the light of the day was about to arrive, I woke up, went out of the house and sat near the mango grove corner of the garden which surrounds the house. The mango trees were laden with green unripe mangoes, each bursting with energy. I began to recognise & observe each mango tree, every mango and its ripening process. There was a mango tree with twisting tree trunk which looked like a human torso.
Without my being aware this tree trunk entered in the expression of my creativity, both in ‘drawing’ & in ‘painting’. The tree trunk began to acquire & change its personality according to the needs of my creativity.
A mango tree, I saw, was