Journey of life can never be of a straight line. It passes through many hurdles and barriers in order to reach the destination. Sometimes a person starts its journey with a destination, but somehow reaches there and when looks back to the path they had taken, it’s a mesh that they have created in their journey. Finding a straight line in the path of the journey is next to impossible.
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Bikash Chandra Senapati, an artist from Odisha depicts his personal journey and experience through his artworks. He represents journey of life as a line in his artwork. Most of his artworks are characterised with a mesh and this mesh denotes the journey of a person. Every person’s journey is never a straight line, it also goes through various criss-cross paths and there by the lines create a mesh rather than a straight line. His journey from village to a city and his personal experiences are the source of inspiration for his artworks.
“I try to define the journey through a line and rather than many straight lines, I tend to create a mesh with many lines. Just like anyone else’s journey my journey is also full of barriers and difficulties, so this mesh depicts my journeys that I have made in my life”, says Bikash Chandra Senapati.
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The artworks submitted to First Take 2022 have orange, red colours that evoke heat or restlessness but yet it’s been used sensitively in a intention of giving the viewer a soothing and calm feeling. “First Take 2022 award gave me the recognition and the validation that I was seeking for a long time and now I know I’m on my right journey”, says Bikash Chandra Senapati.
