Dhamapur Talav
Art and Nature have been integral to human existence and we all urban folks love to occasionally visit places rich in natural diversity and wilderness to and peace outside and within, and also enjoy the local art forms (dance, architecture monuments, crafts, and cuisines) that may be encountered. For some of us who hail from rural areas or the towns, visiting hill stations become a trail of nostalgia and even fun cum adventure to all. Nature belongs to everyone, humans, and others alike. But we have in the process of civilization managed, in current times, to establish our dominance over the others’ totally ignoring coexistence. Artists today are heeding to the dire alerts of biological catastrophe, resulted by past human actions, and looking at the possibilities to re-establish a dialogue between nature and the cultural practices significant in the past before European industrial revolution soaked in the Indian lands. The movement of Land Art in the 1960’s -70s ‘created a sensation through the works of artists who dealt directly with the land as a medium.