Ritesh Meshram’s sculptures incorporate reclaimed wood from Kekee Manzil
(the Gandhy’s home), to give us physical manifestations of Time and Memory
and the kind of escape they may or may not provide to us. He refers to
Thomas Wolfe’s words, “You can't go back home to your family, back home to
your childhood…back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back
home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'the artist' and the
all-sufficiency of 'art' and 'beauty' and 'love,' back home to the ivory tower,
back home to places in the country … away from all the strife and conflict of
the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for,
back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you,
back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed
everlasting but which are changing all the time…”
Ritesh Meshram