Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
-Picasso
Everyone's life is an epic, the memories of struggle, success, smiles, tears and relationships are added to the self
image of me and mine to harden our ego, and there is a constant struggle to keep this ego safe from eroding in the tough hands
of time. Giving these memories a form of image, color or even words, gives reality of the moment a longer shelf life, I like
PB Shelley's Ozymandias for the same reason ( Please correct me if I have understood this poem wrongly). Lucky are the people
who can store their memories as a painting, like my friends Priya and V.P.Vasuhan, we frindly call him Vasu) Today I went
to the opening of Vasu's Painting exhibition, with my friends, it was a great day for Vasu. I don't understand the much of
modern art, but the artists who were present told that his paintings are the reflections Indian subcontinent, and his struggles
in a big city. Thats V.P.Vasuhan, with his painting Dances with Rats.
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless
things,
The hand that mocked them,
and the heart that fed,
- Ozymandias by PB Shelley.
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09 sep 2006