Between Drawing & Word - Drawings by Randhir Khare August 20, 2009

Between Drawing & Word - Drawings by Randhir Khare. Opened by Musa Gulam Jath, the Jodiya Pawa (double flute) player from the Great Rann of Kutch He will perform along with Randhir Khare reading a selection of poems. "My earliest forays into visually expressing myself were through the medium of collage as a response to the mystical and metaphoric poetry of the mystical poet Nelly Sachs. Before I had encountered her poetry I had never really attempted seriously expressing myself visually. But of course I had already written a lot of poetry, published and read my work all over the country and had published my first volume of poems. There was a lot of passion and anger and intensity and eagerness and zeal and desperation in me and my work. It was like being in a whirlpool of chocolate, spittle, blood...beneath a haze of mist that smelled of longing. I was in my 20s then. Nelly Sachs' poetry inspired me out of the whirlpool and taught me to fly...and in that flight transform myself and not be afraid of transcending the temporal...be tangible and yet intangible. " "Her poetry forced me to feel soul-deep and respond to rhythms that I had not thought I would even be able to comprehend. The only way I could respond was through a form that expressed itself intuitively. The collages happened. I am happy for that because after that all the art that grew from me happened intuitively. Through this creative medium I am able to go into those realms that I cannot explore with the other mediums I use (words). The line explores the depths of spaces, the limits and beyond the limits of my consciousness, following trajectories of feeling and sensations, creating new spaces...the micro and the macro - one moving into the other, merging, separating. The line says I exist, I am. It travels on its own volition."

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