Preeti Tamot

As one gazes at the prints on display at an exhibition of Priti Tamot?s work at the Kala Parishad one is struck, first of all, by the literal and visual highpoints. As a child the artist was fascinated by a passage from kalidasa?s ?Meghdootam? where Megha, the cloud was told by the Yaksha that a hill from on high would resemble a woman?s breast (shades of the tortured priest in Maugham?s ?Rain??). This lending of a whole new perspective by a change in the observer?s position stayed with her and the ?birds-eye view? is the predominant perspective in her creations.