Desh Deepak is an artist from Balia who grew up in Bokaro, Jharkhand and studied at the Fine Arts College in Kolkata. He lives in Lonavala and his practice radically changed when he was living at the campus of IIT , Mumbai at Powai. Clearing dead leaves he realised it could become a integral part of his layered surface where he used elements such as Japanese paper, canvas and mud. Actually adversity became the author of his work, having not found his place in art, the lockdown forced him to think differently. Across the Gangetic plains in Bihar, Bengal, Nepal and Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh traditional homes were made of twigs, branches, logs , hay which were then gathered together with various layers of river clay and cowdung. In Maithili we call it ‘tanti’. It must be the same in many other languages and the technique is surely prevalent across India.  Desh Deepak transforms these narratives to view on our present moment and time.