With
the coming together of the diverse elements of interest in her own life,
Bulbul has this time been able to make a specific aesthetic and ideological
statement an the concept of fusing poetry and art. This is the foregrounding
of differences and confluence’s so vital to the frayed context of contradictions
today.
The show revels in the 'Ganga Yamuna' of Kalidasa's
poetry - the 'Shweta' and the 'Shyama' which to Bulbul are metaphors of
larger similarities and opposites - unities and polarities - harmonies
and tensions. The show personifies the mysteries and enigmas that evoke
a range of passions. but merge into human life in subtle ways.
Now Spring mocks women's sweet voice with the
delightful indistinct music of cuckoos, the rays of their teeth in their
smile with the luster of Kunda flowers; the beauty of their sprout like
hands with the young shoots of trees which are as bright as coral.
In houses rendered slightly cool by the
spray of cold water, the women too in the season of spring perfume their
beautiful heads with Champaka blossoms & cover their breasts of lovely
flowers.
May the spring season, beloved of cupid,
grant you happiness till the end of a Kalpa - the spring season wherein
the red Ashoka flowers look like the lower lip ( of ladies ) full of nectar,
were in the hum of intoxicated bees serves as the speech; the Kunda garlands
as the bright rows of teeth, the full bloomed lotus as the face; wherein
the gentle breeze is the fragrant with the sweet smell of the mango blossoms
& which is the perceptor in the initiation of love.
The hearts of even proud ladies are made
to quake by breezes perfumed by blossomed mango trees, by the cooling of
intoxicated male cuckoos & bees noisy music plesent to the years.
