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An Incomplete Story of an Imperfect Sculpture |
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Vajrasan was a reputed sculptor in Vidhanpur, a small kingdom famous for arts and crafts, located on the bank of a legendary river, Revati. He had never disappointed any of his clients who included most of the famous elites of the kingdom. Some were even from outside the kingdom. He had only one problem, he used to leave at least one feature incomplete. For instance, he would leave one leg unsculpted, or one arm, or one ear, or some part in human sculptures incomplete.
This was something people did not like, but given his reputation, nothing could be done. They accepted his idiosyncrasies. He believed that the incomplete part was the conversation starter whenever the people saw his sculptures. Very soon, the conversation moved on to the parts they liked.
One day Nachiketa, a young trainee sculptor, working diligently with him putting things together, by mistake injured a sculpture in making. Vajrasan was very angry and shouted at his disciple. Nachiketa politely said, “Sir, you anyway leave some part of the sculpture incomplete, why can’t you leave the part which got damaged as incomplete?” This infuriated the master Sculptor even more. Vajrasan said, “Do you know anything about the theory of incompleteness? Unless I can see the emerging balance in a sculpture, I can’t decide which part to leave incomplete. In this sculpture, I have not reached that stage yet.”
Nachiketa did not understand the logic, but he kept quiet.
Do you understand? Why should incompleteness be so significant and that too the way it is left in any act, in which part, when and how much? Perhaps, only these imperfections draw our attention to the perfections that any act or person has. Are not these imperfections which keep the act, or the event, or the person, stay with us; don’t we get over the perfect forms, acts, events rather easily? But then obviously, these imperfections or incomplete acts, in company of certain highly exalted act, perhaps make more sense.
Write back your experiences about the theory of incompleteness and its implications in everyday life. The most interesting answer will be published and also given a yearlong subscription free (Eds).
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Honey Bee, 21(4), 2, 2010 |
