Moss-Scapes
( 1998 )
My view
For many years I was chasing awards.
I felt good to recieve so many national and international ones.
While searching for my Moss-scapes, I was also searching for an individual style.
Sometimes a lush carpet of vibrant green,
sometimes a surreal image of harsh beauty, sometimes dry, bleak and mottled, the Moss
has many moods - "and I am fascinated by all of them".
The Moss-scapes will speak in different voices to different viewers.
For we all bring our own search to the experience of "seeing and understanding".
But there is no escaping that particular voice which shatters once
and for all the myth of the ordinary.

The wonder of design - of Lines, Forms, Textures, Light- this is what
I want to communicate through my Moss-scapes.
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Searching for meaning in a mundane patch of green is what photographer
Sham Manchekar has set out to do in his 3rd oneman show.
He has tried to discover abstract and mysterios beauty in a humdrum,
flowerless vegetations called Moss.
Manchekar's quest is an unusual one.

By
Feruzi Anjirbag