My Favourite Artist Who Talks to Me Daily Through His Art

posted on 15 August 2010 | posted in Arts and Entertainment

Art is such a wide term that its true meaning cannot be captured even by using the fanciest vocabulary. I love to collect classic art canvas prints and place them on my walls to remind me of the history of art.

A true artist has no boundaries. His imagination is such that he sees art in anything and everything. I know a man, who in my view is truly an artist with wings of wild imagination. I see him off and on, we even pass a smile, but I do not know his name. He lives in his own world and everytime I see him he seems occupied in doing something creative. It may sound weird but he is my favourite artist. He is not a professional, he is not famous, he is not out to get his work put up in museums, he is not even using his gift, his talent to make a living. It is just pure passion. One day you may just see him sitting under a tree to escape the summer heat and after sometime when he leaves, the ground around the tree would be so beautifully decorated as if some professional spent hours to create the masterpiece.

One fine morning I saw him sitting with a bicycle, that was nothing more than a piece of junk, rusted all over, flat tyres and one would wonder why was it even being looked at. The same evening when I was coming back home I saw an exceptional piece of metalwork which somehow depicted a mother with her child standing in the corner of our local park. A closer look revealed it was the same bicycle I had seen in the morning. Similarly, there is a wall decorated with broken pieces of glass, a figure of "child working" highlighting the issue of child labour and its made of pure metal junk collected from industrial trash, a huge globe made out of tattered tyre rubber and the list is endless.

Each piece of work is different and unique in its own way , but one thing similar about all is that they all are a work of passion and has nothing to do with incentives and not even a single piece is signed by my favourite artist. He doesn't even believe in appreciation or credit for his work. Such a selfless artist talks though his art without letting know who he is.