ABOUT
Aanshiki
“I’m not a creator, I’m not even an artist; maybe a ragpicker who rummages through earth to collect God’s unfinished, abandoned & neglected creations.”
70 years ago, Aban Thakur, the lesser-known cousin of Rabindranath Tagore, gifted the art world with a beautiful new form of visual expression – by creating sculptures from discarded tree branches and roots, driftwood, and leftover, unwanted wood.
He called this work Kutum Katam.
Fast forward to today where a completely new entrant in the art space is all set to resurrect this lost art with her own modern take on it. Meet Aanshiki Mittal and her aptly coined label “FOUND”.
An MBA turned artist from Gurugram, India, Aanshiki's work explores natural forms and structures as accents for her narrative on the evolution of humankind and society as a whole, by placing “God” as an observer and the true artist, with the world as both “his” creation and “his” muse.
Marked with a complete absence of straight lines, her work tends to preserve the natural contours of the ‘FOUND’ wooden pieces while augmenting them with the subtlest of artistic touches in an attempt to add a degree of refinement and attach an element of finality to nature’s hidden messages.
Her artistic expression is not confined to a single canvas, with her creations often traversing the lines between art and decor, sculpture and furniture, serving as a reminder of the proclivity of nature to reclaim her position alongside man, every single time.
