Mixed media on wall. Created for the cross media artists workshop 'Shunyosthan' organized by Shunyosthan Artists Collective, inspired by the concept of 'Blank Space' at Studio 21, Kolkata, India (Click on images to enlarge)
Thoughts grow crippled
Mangled and distorted
Confined
Like the tears
Never shed
Like the smile
Worn and faded.
It becomes thorny
Trying to make peace
With honest reality
Claustrophobic
With fear
In the labyrinth of
Control and desire.
Seeking to escape
Through the cracks
Spreading midget limbs
Like moss on a wall
Crowding
For the dreams so
False and liberating.
Penetrating through
Sanity and insanity
Through the tenses
In time
Memories stare blind
Fastened windows of
Heart and mind.
- Rudra Kishore Mandal
