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Saumya Kashyap |
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| Jugaad is a word that is being
thrown around a lot lately in the financial articles. From S A Aiyar talking how
"jugaad is our most precious resource" to prof. Rishikesha Krishnan’s
latest book "From Jugaad To Systematic Innovation: The Challenge For India" this
word seems to be our latest mantra. Mr S A Aiyar talks about how many years ago, innovative Punjabis mounted a diesel irrigation pump on a steel frame with wheels, creating a vehicle they called jugaad. It was ultra-cheap but did not conform to vehicular regulations. Over time, jugaad has come to mean grassroots innovation to overcome any constraint. I would like to suggest the same kind of thinking towards arts. I met a girl in a hobby shop. She was shopping for canvas and oil colours and seeing huge canvases in my hand asked me what the fan brush was used for. I had no clue as I was buying the canvas for someone else. |
We just started chatting and she
told me that one day she suddenly woke up to the idea that she wanted to paint. She used
whatever she had at home … for instance she used toothbrush as paint brush. She told
me that the best ways to get waves form was to use a large toothed comb and that’s
when I realized that art was not really conforming to certain rules and aspects. It’s
creativity to express ones innermost thoughts. We have to learn the rules of all kinds of art-forms but we also have to learn to successfully break or bend them to work for us. We should not be held back because of the constraints of a medium. I have heard some painters use olive oil and flour in watercolor paintings, and I think there are many more things that can be experimented with to make our art. So I would like to advise all the artists to just have fun don’t worry about being too perfect. Some of my favorite painters are Steve Hanks, Krys Gieskieng, Maud Durland, Vasile Popescu, Sue Dickinson and Katharine A. Cartwright. |
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