JCAM, Vol. 2, No. 1
Saroj Kumar Singh JCAM: What is your professional name? Where were you born and does that place still influence you? Where do you live now and how does that place influence you? Do you have family, friends, or fellow artists who support you in your work, life and art making and how do they make a difference in your life? SKS: My professional name is Saroj Kumar Singh. I was born in Jharkhand, erstwhile part of Bihar, and I carry the essence of rural life in me even after achieving a modern, academic education. Yes, my birth place still has an impact on my life as well as on my creativity. The experiences that I got from village life have largely affected my vision and imagination about art, particularly about sculpture and drawing. From childhood I moved without any restriction and the visual world I saw through those eyes. I found the visual world very beautiful because it exists and is true. I had the chance to see the perpetual flow of water, the reflection of moon light in the midnight, slothful birds, the jumble of a boat, and life around at the river Ganga. It was my tranquil life where I got the vision to see and sense the beautiful world of form and sound. Those days sparked my poetic imagination, and in appreciation of beauty I started expressing my emotion in words, like these untitled poems: I feel like shedding all my clothes, And want to run on the road in the buff. Let the world call me crazy; But I would have no clothes except the infinite sky. __________________________ That boy Over nineteen Somewhat of dusky. Everyday he goes to bed with a dream, AndWhen he open his eyes
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