<p>&nbsp;<b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#404040;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">The Corporate &amp; Creative Blend</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">Gathering the new sense of direction and all the encouragement from the NID faculty, Haribaabu was now ready to step out. To begin with, he was in demand in the corporate world as the Head of the Animation team for the On Air Promotions at a music channel in Chennai. His work continued to speak for itself; and more opportunities opened with offers from various media companies and music channels. Haribaabu shifted base to Mumbai then as the Graphic Head for a television production house. In 2009 Haribaabu quit his job and decided to set up his own studio &ndash; pursuing a more creative path.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">As they say, nothing can stop you when your time has come. Haribaabu got a solo exhibition at the &lsquo;Out of the Blue&rsquo; Lounge in the peak festive season. A stunned audience admired his original work, based on a medium never used before. Critics wrote enthusiastically in leading regional newspapers which featured his work.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">Since his beginnings in the Mumbai Lounge &ndash; Hari&rsquo;s work has gone far afield, including London...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">Today, Haribaabu, while satisfying the needs of his corporate clients through commissioned works, continues to keep alive his creative urge through artworks which are finding a select coterie of collectors.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404040;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:&#10;191"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p>&nbsp;<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#404040;mso-themecolor:text1;&#10;mso-themetint:191">My Philosophy</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">I see life in stillness. And a beginning in every end. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">Ever wondered what happens to obsolete walkmans and out-of date video tapes? To blunt saw blades and to dead cell phones. To ancient floppy discs and fused light bulbs? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">What happens to what we generally call &lsquo;scrap&rsquo;?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">Just because they have out-lived their use, do they deserve to be forgotten away in attics, thrown into bins? Or, just piled up in one corner of a scrap yard?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">Science believes &quot;Matter and energy is neither created nor destroyed, it can just change in form.&quot; An unbroken cycle of creation and destruction. And artistic <a name="_GoBack"></a>recycling. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">Again, this unending cycle is also spiritual in nature &ndash; birth and rebirth. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">And so I see life in stillness. And a beginning in every end. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">Whenever I see scrap materials, I see a soul waiting to come to life.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">I see science merging into art into design into spirituality. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#404040;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:191">And I create.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>