A pair of artwork(Homo Sapience)! Some are crazy about who did it,why he did it, how he did it. It all started years ago, but nobody on earth, still living, knows when it was done for sure. Some find it their only mission in life to study the art. Some dedicate their love and life for the Artist. I am not going to dissect anymore… I find the art as something unique and there is hardly anyone out there, will disagree. But we often do not find the patchworks are enough as done by the artist. Well there is nothing inherently wrong to curate any artwork for better preservation. Curating and altering are two different thing(to me) and altering any masterpiece can never be condoned by that artist. In the case of this pair of artwork, we often tend to alter the artwork rather simply curating. Any guess how we do it? Lots of ways are there in fact.I was struck by a photo feature recently where the journalist painstakingly compiled the pictures of brow-less (eye) celebrities. Now you ...
My classmate Hamim is currently teaching at a University in Tripoli, Libya. He was instrumental in facilitating my tour to the country; a tour down the memory lane. A tour to Kufra, an oasis town in the formidable desert of Sahara. I took an AFRIQIYAH flight which was Libyan Airlines previously on a February night. The direct flight from Dhaka to Tripoli took almost 13 hours to reach. Tripoli airport is now a modern one. Though I am not in a position to compare precisely how it was back then in the nineties when I last visited the country. It took another two hours flight to reach Benghazi, the western port city and the previous capital of the country. Now we have to take a bus to the desert city of Kufra. There is a second World War era airbase in Kufra and a weekly flight is available. But we took a Bus rather waiting for the flight. I still can remember, the last time, when I left Kufra. My dad was a government employee there like many other Ba...