Indian Women Printmakers
From Open Call
From Open Call
Payal
Dream City | Woodcut | 12” x 12” inch
Artist's note
The place where I live Umred has a lot of trees near my house there is a forest there is a river. So my thoughts are constantly on nature. I keep thinking about how I can make people aware of Nature’s responsibilities and how I can work on it. But when I went out for education in big and developed cities like Nagpur, Mumbai, Ahmedabad ,etc., one thing I noticed was that there are very few trees in these cities. The people here have destroyed nature for their own development. It was as if the city was surrounded by buildings. Here people have planted trees only as ornamental objects. We have built our own house for our comfort by destroying forests, but we can do all this by keeping nature safe, can't we? Not only that, but the humanity of the people here is also being destroyed. Every person here is independent, he only sees himself, he doesn't like who lives next door to him, he doesn't like to have any connection with them, and every human being here is growing very fast on the path of progress. But because of all this, we have forgotten how terrible life will be in the future. With all this in mind, I started my "Dream City" series. It was a dream in which there was no man, only nature and man-made houses left. There was a silence everywhere expressing his grief. He wanted to say a lot but no one listened. Because of the damage that nature has done to human progress, there will be a day when there is nothing left on earth. Because of the balance of nature, everyone is living a happy life with good health today. But when the balance of this nature is disturbed, there is destruction. The peace that is spread after this is the experience of the end of the entire creation. I created this series to make people aware that this should not happen. The different colour's used in it are used to represent different seasons and situation of nature.