"The central concern of the write up is to highlight the title “daru” with utmost expression. Daru a Sanskrit word which actually means trees. Trees that constitute part and parcel of nature are losing their existence today, for a general public, but for the visual creator Umesh Nayak trees are equal to revered God.
Being an artist he feels with a rare spontaneity the automotive arrival as instant flash of images and organic/inorganic forms in the internal surface of mind. This is very visual and common. In the case of an artist who rather survives as a visual creature with the impulses and instincts belonging to an automatically and unknowingly but without getting devoid of aesthetic consciousness and then get expressed with an intentional infusion of intellectual in heritance. His art works are rather installations, different object’s collaged image formed and installed together to define a distinct sense. He always feels a drag towards installation making or making of an art in multiple visuals. His installations cum art works seem live to him rendering an appeal in them. They both object and pacify, pacifying his creative urges in a settled space. This is not certainly limited to the infusion of contemporary city. Because he very much leans upon his tradition, heritage and myths. The creative imagination plays its role with scientific establishments. He always wants to put a mode of rationality in his art works though the sources or origins of image making may be distant. He only feels discover, invent and explore himself in his each work. This may be termed as self portrait in versatile moods and platforms. But he doesn’t want to get devoid of himself. He himself is an element of nature. Nature is a primary source to him. Nothing appears secondary to him. He himself becomes an art piece. He consumes himself ‘The me’ in him is the most intimate object to him. He may be called the exploration as the guardian materials are creating the art works. His looks also cater every object as a mirror to envision. The second is ‘self’ as the other reality. Very often as he watches the nature around him it appeals and extracts the very person in him and becomes the individual. So as in a trance he enters in to the metaphysical of the nature. He has worked on an ‘Olata vriksha’ concept. And also fantasizes him as a part of nature, which is not a more commodity, object of usage rather a holder, a carrier of his body engulfing his spirituality and soul. Not as a might, more be in a form of semi realistic. One may classify his works as abstract figurative on nonfigurative figure. The abstractions in the figurations create a consumed effect. But he should clarify; he works in certain sense and always tries to render a physical or material frame to the particular levels of his thoughts. His art works have also distinct freedom. In a sense he may say they act themselves, get created, speak, interpret, consume, envision and visualize themselves."
Priyangna Jain (Curator)