Imaginative and wild thoughts of childhood found shapes in Terracotta relief artworks at the Agartala City Centre.
A three-day exhibition on Terracotta reliefs is underway at the City Centre in which 40 school students between 7 to 15 years showed their ability to give an artistic shape to their dream world.
The Exhibition started on Sunday and it is being organized by ‘Chitram’ Art and Craft School, Agartala.
Trapa Choudhury, a class IV student of St Paul’s School, Agartala – one of the youngest of the lot – is fond of Vampire and nocturnal birds. She gave shape to her fondness and wonderfully created reliefs resembling a bat and an owl.
A class V student of Kendriya Vidyalaya Kunjaban, Sombuddha Chanda came up with a mask of a bison-like animal with its horns twisted downward.
“The special feature of this mask is that horns are pointed downwards, – usually masks are found with horns upwards”. Then he went on to justify his thoughts with his innocent yet rational clarifications.
In an excellent symbolic representation, Anurag Saha created ‘a boat with a flag but without a boatman on an ocean’. The student of class VII of Bharati Vidya Bhawan attempted to make Terracotta relief for the first time. The boat in the relief might represent an orphan who is struggling to stay afloat, said his art teacher and director of ‘Chitram’, Prasun Datta.
Datta said, “We conducted a two-day workshop on Terracotta artworks. The reliefs displayed in this exhibition were created by the students of Chitram in the workshop.”
Talking about her experience during the workshop, Sunita Datta, a Class IX student of Rajnagar Gandhigram High School said, “In the workshop, our Sir gave us clay – we never got a chance to touch so much clay before. We all were overwhelmed”. Sunita made beautiful masks reflecting her simple yet clear thoughts.
“This year’s New Year celebration was different and memorable – surely due to the exhibition. It is a wonderful experience”, the participating children said.
The exhibition will end on Wednesday with the hope of more workshops and exhibitions in the coming days. Chitram’s art Director Prasun Datta is also hopeful of conducting more creative works with these wonderful creative-minded children. (Courtesy: Tripura Times)