'Wait!' - Ashok Mohapatra
Ashok is a Caesurae member and an academic. Yet the fine artiste in him often times finds expression through music and graphic paintings. These images are like the tip of an ice-berg, and the viewer is left to his/her own free play of fantasy and imagination to construct a story based on the semiotics of Ashok’s presentation. These images on “Wait”, explore the possibilities of the emotive feelings in various ways.
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He did not come on the Spring Day of Holi
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I looked for him in the vernal woodlands awash with sunlight
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Maybe he was watching the sea from the ramparts of the old fort.
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He watched the midday sea simmer
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She told she would be back, how weirdly dark the afternoon grows with the rain clouds
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She was caught in the afternoon rain somewhere in the busy street