Mindscape In Cyberspace

My Visual Art Blogalleria is one of my favorite personal Blog projects that I have initiated in the beginning of 2006, the time when I started thinking about various possibilities of a Blog and looking for different ways to use blogging as an effective tool to build a credible web presence. I coined the word ‘Blogalleria’ joining ‘Blog’ and ‘Galleria’ together, to establish this blog’s identity as ‘an on-line art gallery created using a blog’ and also, ‘a blog in form of an art gallery’. For last two years, I have been posting my personal as well as non-commercial graphics, photographs, photographics, illustrations, paintings and sketches on this Visual Art Blogalleria and it has become a public archive of my personal as well as other non-commercial artworks.

Recently, I have overhauled this Blogalleria, changed its look and feel and the sidebar content, added lots of new exhibits and items and tried to establish better interactions with my other web-based public initiatives. I am quite excited about it to see how this change affects the visitors of the site.

There was another parallel thought process brewing in my mind, when I was revamping this Blogalleria. Being a designer, I usually believe in eternal design truths, like “a dark text on light background is easier to read”. But, since I stumbled upon two interesting posts on green computing and black google by Mark Ontkush on ecoiron.blogspot.com, almost a year back, I have started thinking about Mark’s argument and since then, I have been following his blog and hist posts regularly. His argument is based on the fact that, “a given monitor (CRT) requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen” and derives a conclusion that says, websites with black background save a minuscule amount of energy, each time opened in a CRT Monitor.

Inspired by Mark’s idea, this time I have decided to change the background color to Black and to use Black as much as possible instead of any other lighter color on flat areas of the site. This effectively means that whenever someone will open any page of this Blogalleria in a CRT monitor, he/she will save a little amount of energy. A small step towards saving energy, saving earth.

WE PROTEST AGAINST VIOLENCE

FEW LINKS TO VARIOUS RESOURCES THAT CARRY VALUABLE AND REVEALING INFORMATION ABOUT THE RECENT DEATHS, MASS-MURDERS, RAPES, VIOLENCE AND ABDUCTIONS, AT NANDIGRAM, WEST BENGAL, INDIA!

• Nandigram Chronology
• Nandigram Genocide - A revealing video
• Nandigram 14.3 - Development-Dialogues
• Nandigram on Development-Dialogues
• Medical Report on Nandigram
• Nandigram Archive on SacredMediaCow
• Nandigram on singur-singur.blogspot
• Protest in Bangalore
• Photos of protest at Bangalore
• Report and photos on BlrMirror
• Report in Hindu on Bangalore protest
• Left is equal to Right in West Bengal
• Nandigram - Citizens’ Report
• Citizens’ Statement on Nandigram
• Nandigram on Sanhati.com
• Nandigram on Youtube.com
• Nandigram on Flickr.com
• Nandigram on Vinnomot.com
• Abhijit Mitra’s Bengali Poetry on Nandigram
• Download protest banners »

[If you know other resources/information/report on protest against Nandigram, please post a comment with the link. I will try to update the list.]

The Season of Watermelons
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I see the dead watermelons, in this season, red and sliced. This season of watermelons gonna be hard, ruthless, I think. The chopper, steel and cold, slits and slices deep in this season, quite often. And someone writes a big ‘3′ on our adultarated blood, with red ink, in this season.

Honestly, in this season of watermelons, in this April, it’s all red, and sliced inside our mind.*

Read the original text in Bengali here
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* I often create images that are directly related to a piece of text. The text contributes to the visual expressions of the image and the image loses its relevance, without the text. The attached image is one of those text-dependant images. The original text is in Bengali (mentioned above in Bengali Unicode) and later I tried to translate the same in English. I do not think the English version is effective enough to bring out the essence of the Bengali text. But that was my best try!

I always like these aimless, apparently meaningless, untitled images that I generate while playing with or scribling on my old, dumped or unfinished works on a lazy Sunday morning or lone Saturday nights! I never wanted to achieve something or preach some messages through these works. They are just visual expressions of a particular state of my subconscious mind and they are never conscious constructions with specific goals. I just let the colors and lines flow as they want, resulting these images that talk about themselves, not about me or my consciuos thought process.Most of the cases these images are lost. Only a few are saved and stored and archived in my hard disk.

I have started putting them on my Digital Art Blogalleria. Recently, I have added another aimless, untitled graphics on my Blogalleria. One of these aimless images can be viewed here.