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"This painting is from a series called `Futility of Device`. I did this series after the demolition of the Babri masjid. It represents my search for the history of India, for our historical past. It is a huge painting and derives from a feudal history. The atmosphere in these paintings is reproduction of the atmosphere in photographs of the archeological remains in India, which is heightened by the use of metallic paint on canvas.
It is... "This painting is from a series called `Futility of Device`. I did this series after the demolition of the Babri masjid. It represents my search for the history of India, for our historical past. It is a huge painting and derives from a feudal history. The atmosphere in these paintings is reproduction of the atmosphere in photographs of the archeological remains in India, which is heightened by the use of metallic paint on canvas.
It is sculptural in the form. I have used the image of the boat because it also is derived from my childhood memories. I grew up in Kerala, and where I lived, there was a place where boats were made. Boats also represent colonialism and the entire culture of repression. The English had come to India on boats."
(Shibu Natesan on Futility of Device - I)

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