Larger than life visions on grain-sized canvas

The miniature museum featuring Palash’s micro art.

Young artist Md. Palash Uddin is pursuing a track less traversed. Palash has focused on 'micro art.' A genre that makes the artistic process even more difficult -- the artist has to accomplish the seemingly unattainable task of turning the smallest particles into pieces of art.
Palash's recent solo exhibition of micro art was held at Drik Gallery, Dhanmondi. The exhibition was a novelty, just for the sheer size of the frames.
The highlight was a miniature art museum (12 inch X 30 inch) on display. Palash has named it 'Bangabandhu Bangladesh Shilpakarmo Jadughar,' as homage to the Liberation War and its architect.
The overall standard of the artworks is perhaps of amateur level, but it'd be unfair to judge these creations by the cold hard parameters of composition, colour and style.
When an artist has managed to successfully make portraits of legendary personalities on rice and mustard grains, it should be considered an accomplishment by itself. The nitty-gritty can be overlooked in this particular case.
Palash's 'micro museum' (if it can be called that) features around a hundred artworks at this point. According to the artist, it has ample space to hold five hundred pieces. An interesting feature of the museum if that, from a bird's eye view it resembles the national flag.
The artworks feature portraits of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, Sufia Kamal, the seven 'Bir Sreshtha'; nature of rural Bangladesh; abstract compositions and much more.
There are portraits of globally renowned figures as well, and reproductions of classics, like Mona Lisa.
The exhibition ended on August 8. This was Palash's fourth solo exhibition. The young artist from Khulna completed his BFA from Khulna Art College and MFA from UODA, Dhaka. He has also received several honours including the 'Bir Sreshtha Hamidur Rahman Award' (2002) and 'Focus Bangladesh Preference Award' (2007).