In Vedanta there is a reference to Rina Triya-the triad of obligations. It elucidates that any civil society is obliged to inherit the values of its culture and tradition fromancestors, preserve and build upon these for their furtherance and then pass these on to the posteriety. Realising and practicing the principles such as the one stated above has perhaps been the reason for India to be one of the oldest continuous civilizations. Looking at the phenomenon from the point of view of human perception also one understands that a society's grasp of its past becomes a reason for creativity in the present. It stimulates all forms of contemporary expression allowing the meaning to seep through images, shapes and a plethora of other cultural activities.
While looking at this phenomenon of past and present as a continuum where lines of distinction between historical memories and personal experiences blur if not disappear, we realise an eternal source of knowledge within ourselves. A source which energises us to flow on and to be a part and parcel of this continuum.
.....and now, As we look around and try to assess the 'phenomenon' of sculpture happening around we understand that from the latter half of the previous century onwards we come across a wide variety of experimentation viz a viz the material, the form and even the theorising and conceptualisation pertaining to sculpture.This shift towards some meaningful experimentation may generally be attributed to an eternally curious and intrinsically innovative nature of artists in general and that of sculptors in particular. By virtue of the nature of their work along with a self decided freedom to conceptualise and execute the same, sculptors have been reasonably successful to impart to their work the characteristics of an innate intelligence, wit, humour and thought or all together as we may call it an 'aesthetic persona'....In much simpler words 'the reality a work of art needs to attain'. This reality generally is subject to a language which artists coin to suit their perpetually changing personality and the requirements of the particular times. However yet, what seems to be a constant is that the said reality is some total of what an artist sees, reacts to, remembers, thinks about, perceives and then together externalises these aspects as a concrete manifestation. The whole process which may also be called as the process of creativity needs time ---a period of gestation to arrive at a state of independence that in turn imparts enough visual and formal strength to what is created. The strength that simultaneously decides the continuity and the contemporaneity of a work of art.