What happens when the poet is also an artist? A book comprising poems and drawings, naturally! Bagur Markandeya’s book “ Rekhegalalli Bhavageethegalu” (songs in lines) is being released on Friday, July 12.
Feelings and rhythms
“A point that moves becomes a line. The line bends to create forms that capture feelings. The lines can also create rhythm. And what is poetry if not feelings and rhythms,” he asks.
Bagur Markandeya is well versed in several fields like theatre, dance, literature which helps to express himself better, he says.
He wants to reach out through art and poetry because he says “ art and literature are beyond borders. The language of the lines is universal. If the art work itself speaks half of the ‘text’, the other half gets completed in the mind of the viewer”.
Children’s literature
Bagur Markandeya is a familiar name in Kannada children’s literature. He has published several rhymes’ books for children and also illustrated them. Working as an artist at DSERT.
He is also known for his ‘full stop art” where in he creates art works through dots. He has done portraits of popular personalities in this form.
Bagur Markandeya has held several one-man shows all over the State.