You must wonder why this shop has a poetry section. I know it seems a bit disconnected and perhaps an impulsive piece to add to one's shop front, but I wished to bring together my artistic forms.
Before there were landscapes, patterns, and tactile expressions of memory, there were poems.
The works collected here were written during my teenage years, a time when words became my first creative language. Poetry offered a space to explore emotions, questions, observations, and experiences that often felt too complex to express elsewhere. Through verse, I documented moments of growth, uncertainty, wonder, and self-discovery, weaving together thoughts and feelings into stories that reflected the world as I understood it at the time.
Looking back, these poems reveal the foundations of themes that continue to shape my creative practice today: connection, identity, nature, belonging, memory, and transformation. While my medium has evolved from the written word to inked art, the impulse behind the work remains the same—a desire to create meaning from experience and to transform personal reflection into something tangible and shared.
Through Sylvan Ripple, those early poetic threads have found new forms. The metaphors once written on paper now emerge through texture, colour, and ink. The stories, emotions, and observations that first appeared in my notebooks have become intricate artworks, and pieces that invite introspection as well as contemplation. Each artwork continues a conversation that began years ago in poetry, carrying forward the same curiosity, vulnerability, and search for connection.
These poems are therefore more than a collection of youthful writings; they are the roots of a creative journey. They offer a glimpse into the origins of an artistic voice that has evolved across disciplines while remaining connected by a single thread—the enduring belief that art, in all its forms, has the power to preserve memories, express identity, and create meaningful connections between people.
- Rajashree Sengupta
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