Artist defies gravity law
Times of Bennett | Updated: May 22, 2021 17:47
By Ankita
PATNA: People would laugh at you, if you say, ‘I can stick things together without glue.’ But this has happened not in fairy tales but in reality. Meet 36-year-old
Grab has been doing this for years. “It started with an accident, I was hanging out with a friend in the city and we spontaneously started
He began
The most challenging part is to find the degree of focus required to achieve small contact points in complex structures. Because of that challenge, structures can take anywhere from 10 minutes to several hours to reach the required form.
“I prefer to use harder stones for balancing, so the natural edges can withstand the adjustments I need to make to center the mass properly. But for design, I prefer obscure shapes to make structures more interesting. The physical balance works like a camera tripod, where the mass is centered between three tiny contact edges, which can be found in the natural surface texture of the
Grab got inspiration from his mother’s quilt art. His passion for stone balancing led him to
Grab never plans his artworks. “I let them rise spontaneously and approach my art in the moment, like a meditative yoga practice,” he said.
This story was first published in The Of Bennett, a student-run initiative of The Times School of Media, Bennett University.
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