TALKING ART

Bizarre tales in art

- JITHA KARTHIKEYAN [e-mail] (Jitha Karthikeyan is an artist and curator, passionate about making art accessible to the larger public)

T'S easy to spot an artist in any gathering. All you have to do is enter the room and pause for a minute to look around. Among the sea of faces that you encounter in that sweeping glance, there will be that one visage that refuses to blend in. The attire, the hairdo, the shoes, the opinions on a subject being discussed—it could be anything at all that draws your attention and screams 'out of sync' loud and clear, but there is no way you cannot identify the nonconformist.