India, Sept. 19 -- Last month, I discovered the power of paper in the hands of an artist sculptor. I was looking at a lantern. One that was sliced vertically and had a surreal flavour. Suddenly, the object had become subject through an interplay colours and the contours. Master sculptor Vivek Das from Jharkhand is expanding the paper's potential through the time worn art of papier mache.

Power of Paper

Paper oscillates through time and tide. Paper has been the greatest invention for an artist, it has been a symbol of possibility and an abacus for writers, researchers architects, designers, artists and sculptors ever since its invention in China around 105 A.D. We think of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings, we think of Reubens, Raphael, Rembr...