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Intertidal Wonders, an lipid coating accumulation by Nagarjuna Sridhara, opened astatine Visakha Museum connected Beach Road connected Sunday, showcasing the vibrant marine beingness of Vizag’s coastal ecosystems. Organised successful collaboration with the East Coast Conservation Team (ECCT), the accumulation volition beryllium held successful 2 phases. The archetypal portion features 27 oil-painted illustrations of intertidal species, portion the 2nd phase, scheduled for 2026, volition proceed exploring Vizag’s unsocial marine biodiversity.
Nagarjuna Sridhara, a noted creator with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Andhra University and a Master of Visual Arts from M.S. University, Baroda, has received the Andhra Pradesh State Cultural Council Award (2003) and a commendation from the Hyderabad Art Society (2004). His works person been showcased crossed India, from Mumbai to Baroda and Bhopal, successful solo shows, radical exhibitions, and wildlife-focused creation projects.
Previous works specified arsenic Flying Tints and Tones (2013), Winged Jewels (2020), Slithering Denizens (Visakha Museum), and An Introduction to Wildlife of Vizag (2023) item his heavy engagement with ecology and art.
The theme, Intertidal Biodiversity of Vizag, brings to beingness organisms that thrive successful the abstraction betwixt precocious and debased tide lines. Vizag’s rocky shores, shaped by the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, big 1 of India’s astir divers coastal ecosystems. The paintings diagnostic sponges, brushed corals, anemones, barnacles, flatworms, hermit crabs, shrimps, oversea stars, and reef fish, tracing evolutionary milestones from the earliest multicellular animals to tunicates, the evolutionary nexus to vertebrates.
Marine biologists from ECCT volition beryllium contiguous passim the accumulation to explicate the diverseness and adaptations of the taxon portrayed. According to Nagarjuna Sridhara, the fusion of creation and subject offers a unsocial learning acquisition for students, creation lovers, and conservation enthusiasts alike.
The accumulation is unfastened to the nationalist from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. connected October 13 and 14—an acquisition for creation and quality enthusiasts alike.
