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Artistic skills of Shoshen and Shyamol Acharja go unnoticed
Many an artistic talent goes unnoticed until the artist wins a major competition. Such is the story of sculptors Shoshen Acharja and Shyamol Acharja who have bagged gold medals at the national level.
“We can capture the expres-
sions and body language of any human or living creature,” said Shoshen, a student of Class X at Shoilati High School in Tarail upazila who in 2006 won the first prize for clay work (Kha division) at a competition organised by the Bangladesh Shishu Academy (BSA).
Not to be left behind, his younger brother Shyamol won die first prize in the same category in 2007.
Shyamol studies in Class IX at the same school.
It has been a tough haul for the duo. Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan, chairman of the Damiha Union Parishad, said that the boys' father Shushil Acharja could not afford the conveyance expenses to send the boys to the BSAcompetition in Dhaka. Meanwhile, the residents of the union were sure that the brothers would win at the presti-gious competition and raised the required funds in 2006 and 2007.
A visit to the family home of the boys in Damiha village reveals a financially strained family. The small uthaan (open space in front of the house) is the brothers' makeshift studio. Their house is not big enough for a family of five. It’s a constant struggle, they say, to pursue their art. Apparently there is hardly any place to keep their artworks and when it rains they cannot continue their work in the open space. What's worse is that there is hardly any privacy as curious passersby gather around when they are hard at work.
The artist duo says that they are compelled to use rather primitive tools as they cannot afford the modern equipments used at the sculpture department of art colleges and other institutes. Their explanation is that their father, a day labourer, cannot afford the additional expenses.
Abdur Razzak, head teacher of Shoshen and Shyamol's school, testifies to their talent but points out that such impediments to their art need to be ironed out.
Nevertheless the brothers soldier on. They devote 15-20 days to complete a sculpture and manage to put in two to three hours daily on their artistic work after returning from school.
Their sculptures include representations of Mona Lisa, National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore, Duranta, a farmer at work and more.
Razzak hopes that the talented brothers will have the opportunity to refine their artistic skills and -with a little help from the right quarters -- emerge as sculptors par excellence at the international level.