A little twisted work of art, the canvas is black! Why this dissatisfaction with traditional canvas or even colours for that matter? Central Indian artist Shailendra, has no answers, because he doesn't like them. “Answers put a full stop to conversations. The dialogue stops as soon as the questions come to an End. Then its all over.” he says. He is caught up with art, and does not want to constrain himself to a sole medium. From stone, as a sculptor, he sometimes wanders into soft canvas. On the 6th November 2009 as the season begins, Shailendra Kumar with his white inked canvases arrives in Pune to the Waves Art Gallery. The works may reflect philosophical ideas of non-existence found in classical Indian philosophies. But if one leaves the profound aside, we could simply say 'every end is a beginning and every beginning marks an end. Perhaps that is what the artists and common man's struggle is all about: constantly moving forward towards an end, which never comes. The end never comes. Because this will lead to something else and the chain never stops, its never-ending. Its endless beginnings.

-Tanushree Biswas