"…that violent energy, which is like a fire of straw, consumes in a few minutes the nervous vitality, and is useless in the arts. Our fire must burn slowly, and we must constantly turn away to think, constantly analyze what we have done …"
W.B. Yeats

The world of Sujata Bajaj is indeed simmering with "nervous vitality". A variety of media, pigment and techniques gather on the surface of the artist's picture plane, somewhat like memories which converge in a rare moment from several different sources and rush into an effulgent flame nonchalantly and with spontaneity. Numerous layers are worked upon with an admirable blend of impetuosity and restraint, and not even the minutest denudation will ever reveal the private meanderings which constitute these translucent veils.

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