During the era of the Soviet Union and Mao China, the farmers had great pride in toiling the land to showcase their produce to the prosperity of the Motherland. The steel workers in Stalin gleamed from ear to ear when the steel yield reach yet another annual record. The musician bleeds his fingers to give another mesmerising performance in the name of music. To him, music did not die with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens with the plane crash, but it lives on. The Bharatnatyam dancer grimaces as she executes another gravity defying posture to honour the spirit of the blissful union of Nataraja. Detractors vilify the dance as a glorification of the decadent lifestyles of the courtesans, but she would like to imagine it as the immersion of Divine powers of Siva and Shakti. Performers of the visual art do not mind shedding their tunic and ignoring the first sensation that man felt as they were outcast from the Garden of Eden, i.e. shame, all for the glory and developme...
It is all Mimesis