There was a time in everyone’s life when the simple sights around were of interest, be it a yawning cat or a crow perched on an electric line, or even a ‘touch me not’ in the courtyard. Those sights lose their charm for most people as they grow out of childhood or get engaged in the mad race that is life.
This teenager, Anujath Sindu Vinaylal, forces you to take a break, breathe in a whiff of fresh air and take note of some of the simple things in life that would provide you pure joy.
'Enikku chuttum enthenthu kazhchakal!', (Around me, a world of wonders), an exhibition of the works of Anujath that began at the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Art Gallery in Kozhikode on Sunday, redirects one's attention towards these simple pleasures, and at the same time, makes one wonder why this joy is missing in the paintings made by children these days, if at all they do paint.
