For the Flight to Harmony Foundation, what began as a project to carve a hill in Purulia, West Bengal, India into a modern sculpture and renew the rich, long lost
tradition of rock carving in India,
has now turned into a process of connecting with the marginals. First, it was the tribal locals of Purulia, then prisoners in Correctional Homes, and now, the
marginalized people, in Kolkata; the connections made through the
practice and sharing of art.
A workshop, the first of its kind in Kolkata, held on with a specific target group of the marginalized people, was an
experimental endeavour, in which a group of committed and
concerned practicing artists interacted with a group of street dwellers, who have lost their bearings and connections with family and society. More than yet another exercise
in art therapy, it was an attempt to arouse the creative spirit in the afflicted, and make it an emancipatory agency.