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The
Lost Cow
This section represents the artist’s dialogue
with the economic or materiality of the developments
that place in the Kaliyuga where the cow from Kamadhenu
is transformed into Kamadhana-exploited for economic
and political gains but neglected and removed from
the household/domestic intimate space she occupied
for millennia. The cow is lost in the labyrinth
of post modern reality, and wanders in an alien
urban landscape seeking its pastoral past. Forced
and hemmed into these unnatural environs, the cow
wanders on heaps of rubbish, eating bags of polythene,
never losing her bovine patience. She now allows
the rag picker children, who are also abandoned
like her to play with her, ride her and share her
destiny. It is the urban masses who are mute witnesses
to this ignominy of this noble being. The cow’s
eye questions the viewer as is her loss mirrors
man’s own loss in the march to humanity.
Ms. Seema Bawa
write-ups by:
Ms.
Geeta Doctor
Ms.
Vandana Shiva
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