Much ado about ART!

Some vague thoughts crossed my mind and I just felt like changing the name of my blog from Tarang to ART which literally is an equation as follows:

Antarang(अन्तरंग )+ Rang(रंग) + Tarang(तरंग) = Art ... of LIFE and LIVING!
अन्तरंग के तरंग जब भजते हैं तो ज़िन्दगी का रंग खील उठता है है ना ?

Between, I welcome you all for the "re-naming" ceremony of my blog! [Smile]

One must have an ‘aesthetic’ sense to enjoy art. Art is all about expression. It is about ex pressing and transforming an ordinary experience. Now, this might be an odd thing to expect. It seems that art is confined and is the sort of stuff in the museums, architectures, galleries, poetry books, theaters, concert halls or more so everything that can be show cased in the places which are marked off as the zones of the unusual and the exalted. I do agree to this. But it sure is also about how ordinary things and experiences can transform and make a difference in the way we look at things in the so called unusual zones of display of talent! Which can make us more passionate, more engaged and much more oriented and more immersed.

Art for me, apart from self expression, is also about being fully present in the real. About co-relating the self with one another and with the nature. About getting unified and to fuse with the universe. About experiencing oneness. It is something that “absorbs” you. Now, this makes ‘that something’ an ‘ART’. Art is extraordinary. A creation of a genius, the creative mind! Crispen Sartwell beautifully says, “ Art is characteristically human way of being and loving the world. The process of becoming absorbed into living, of becoming present in one’s life.”

All of this is to say that art is perpetual. It’s beyond time and space. And that it also has a spiritual bend to it. Well, this doesn’t mean that it calls for the higher realm than the physical. It rather is human experience in its greatest depths and greatest intensity. Art is what we make of ourselves and the world. What we are in reality. Or perhaps what our world makes out of it! It’s a way of accepting. Ecstatically affirming the world in which we abide. If you look carefully and observe the world around you, both static and dynamic, you will see that everything is a work of art. Right from the one who makes the small nuts, bolts, bearings, carton boxes et all to the the giant aeroplanes and mansions. All are artists in their own right. A great work of display, all of them!! Isn’t it?

Each one of us are worthy of appreciation. Most of all the one supreme creation is the creation of this world and of course, man! Give it to the supreme power(call it what you want – god, super natural power, supreme consciousness, energy, wat eva!). Everything in MY universe is a surprise to me. How did this happen? I forget the theory and my imagination crosses beyond the theory. In fact, there is a limitation to all the theories and ideologies. It starts with an “IF”! So, only if the “IF” is true, will the theory hold strong. Else????? Hmmm….. My mind actually travels beyond time and space. Somewhere, everything is a mystery!! I bow and surrender to the supreme soul!!

Oh well, excuse me.. Allow me to back track..[smile] So friend, this is what I think... Living is an art. Put in your creative best. Let the canvas/ media be anything. You choose. Design it well. Give it a beautiful finish. Take care about the intrinsic details. Put it on display. Exhibit it! It ll sure turn heads! And you shall be signing your autograph...

And hence the name: ART.. of life and living!! Lemme know what you feel. Both about the subject of core discussion and of course the new name of my blog! Am looking forward to your response!