Mangalore, July 6: To turn a simple piece of paper into a conversation piece using just folds, bends and cuts is a talent a few can boast. And with the intricately fashioned masks and designs — done only with a few decisive cuts, Syed Fakruddin Huseni can truly claim to have mastered the art form.
The Mandya born gifted artist S F Huseni, who is popularly called Mysore Huseni is now inspiring younger generation artists of Mangalore for making experiments by organising serious of programmes. In association with Omkara Friends of Kadapara and Journey Theatre he presented a rare programme on Thursday at Bovi School in Uchila on Thursday. On Friday the programme was organised at government school at Someshwar Uchil. On Saturday two separate programmes are scheduled at Bhagavati Education Trust and Anandashrama School. He has also plans to demonstrate his art in front of public at Someshwar beach on Sunday.
As the artist grooms his line drawing skills, Mr Huseni has come out with many new ideas and forms. The line drawings of Ganesha is among his best works done so far. These drawings are those which is done in a single line to make the outline sketch of the picture is drawn using a black ball pen.
He has to his credit of making more than 4,000 line drawings, including Ganesha. “Ganesha is an inspiration to me. I have been fascinated by the picture of Ganesha since my childhood days. The trunk of the Ganesha is just enough to represent his image,”?he says.
Mr. Huseni fused sanjhi, the traditional Indian paper cutting art form, and kirigami, the Japanese technique, to create paper art that has won him many laurels, including the Mysore Dasara Award.
He started experimenting with the play of lights captured on a camera. The result of this can be seen in the surreal images titled, Diffraction of Light on a CD.
The simple concept uses an umbrella to guide beams of light on to a compact disc, which reflects the beam onto a wall of a dark room. The movement of the umbrella changes the angle by which the light strikes the CD, and, hence, moves the beam of light along the wall. This movement is then captured in a camera that is set on long exposure.
Though this kind of form was attempted first by Picasso, Mr. Huseni claims he went further to create a unique art form after he followed his visually-challenged mother Zenatunnisa's advice.
“I was using a blanket to change the direction of light, and apart from not achieving the required designs, it would also make me very sick. When my mother got to know of this, she suggested I use an umbrella,” he said.
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