City bases engineer and an amateur botanist Shrikant Ingalhalikar introduced Japan’s well known art called Tambo Ata or Paddy Art in India. His very first creation which is a giant image of Lord Ganesha near Donje Phate on Singhagad road in Pune has already achieved a lot of attention from art lovers around the world.
This unusual form of art hails from Japan, which is well known for its rice growing heritage. Paddy art was originally invented by the peasants of Inakadate to celebrate two thousand years of their rice growing tradition in the year 1993.
Ingalhalikar was inspired by different varieties of rice with different colours and he merged them on field which then became a giant canvas for him to work on. Since then with the help of computer graphics which helps paddy art work to take up difficult challenges Shrikant has created images of Mona Lisa and Marilyn Monroe.
He says that the biggest challenge of this paddy art work was when he created the giant image of Lord Ganesha; he had to plant rice plants in pouring rain standing in knee-deep muddy water for hours on end.
This eye catching image of lord Ganesha is 40 meters in length and is in two colours this is certainly very much attractive but Ingalhalikar says that in future he wants to take up more difficult challenge and wants to motivate youngsters to take up careers in agricultural field and shouldn’t shy away from getting their hands dirty, they must work hard.
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