Q: What do you do? How do you define yourself as an artist?
VED NAYAR answers:
I paint, I sculpt, I make installations and I write about my creativity and my concerns. My art is my personal creative visual expression, with a concern creeping in.
Q: What is your message?
VED NAYAR answers:
Live your life around your cultural identity. Imbibe your local, regional and global consciousness in your creative visual expression.
Q: Your biography in four lines.
VED NAYAR answers:
I was born in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad- Pakistan) on May17, 1933. I lived in a jungle. The road was two kilometers from my house, from where the world started, I thought, in my childhood. I experienced the partition of my country. I completed my general education (B.A) from St. Stephen's college, Delhi. I completed my Art education from College of Art, Delhi. I
am a free- lance artist.
Q: Do you upload your work to the

web? If so, where could we see it? VED NAYAR answers:
http://www.vednayar.com
Q: How is an idea born? For you, what is inspiration?
VED NAYAR answers:
'I am content, choosing to walk, all alone in darkness,
locating, building and carving my own path to walk on,
towards the universe of a floating volume of intense darkness,
hiding sparkles of light.
Sometimes, a sparkle of light comes out of that universe of floating darkness,
engulfs me and then leaves me rejuvenated,
to continue locating, building and carving my path, to walk on it,
in darkness towards the universe of floating volume of intense darkness,
hiding sparkles of light.
Q: What role does technology play in your creative process?
VED NAYAR answers:
I am a contemporary Indian artist. I make use of any medium or technology
which helps me to achieve my creative

visual expression, the way I conceived and visualized it.
Q: What is art?
VED NAYAR answers:
Art, to me, is a creative visual expression.
Q: When do you get your best ideas?
VED NAYAR answers:
I don't know. When an idea becomes a compulsion, I express it.
Q: How do you evaluate whether an idea is good or not?
VED NAYAR answers:
I don't evaluate my ideas. I live life. When an idea becomes compulsion, I express it. Let the history judge it. Accept it or discard it.
Q: Three creative ideas that you would have liked to have created?
VED  NAYAR answers:
I don't want to base my creativity on somebody else's creative ideas.
Q: When and how did you begin to see yourself as an artist?
VED NAYAR answers:
My art is my personal creative visual expression, with a concern creeping in.

I don't remember any signs, during my childhood, which could have definitely predicted my becoming a painter-sculptor. I was the youngest child in the family. I was a lonely child who had adjusted to aloofness, enjoying it and hating it alternately. Living in a house which was amidst a jungle (forest), about two kilometer from the road from where, I thought, the 'World' started. From the house, a pagdandi (pathway) led me through the jungle to the World and from the World to my house.
My first relationship, in my life, outside my house, began with this jungle. I took the jungle in me through the window and from the terrace of my house. It tempted me and whenever I came out of my house, it engulfed me, as if to take the responsibility to prepare me to face the world. The jungle was never consistent in its behavior towards me—it changed its moods during the day and the behavior when seasons changed. The jungle, sometimes let me feel its love, care and indulgence. It provided me the cover of cool shade when I walked through it, returning from school in the hot summer afternoon— allowed

me to explore it, let me climb the trees, pick flowers, listen to the conversations and the music of the birds. Sometimes the jungle taunted me, even scared me, — let a snake pass in front of me. It lengthened the shadows of the trees, allowed the howling wind pass through it, when I had to cross it at night to reach my home— But always in the end, asked the full moon to peep through the branches of the trees, slowed down the wind,— made a flower drop on my way— and guide me home on the 'pagdandi' (pathway). Somewhere, sometime during this relationship with the jungle, I think, the desire to express was born in me. I had no medium at my
command to express and the urge got buried somewhere.
Amidst my relationship with the jungle, the world began to change very quickly. The country was partitioned. We fled leaving the jungle behind. I saw a group of people killing one helpless person. I met people who had a compulsion for lying and who planned to harm their dear ones, friends and children, but were accepted as innocents. Urge to express came back and I took a