ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This photograph is an image of metaphor describing Goa as "Rome of East" since past few centuries, after the invasion of Portuguese.
it has been clicked at Old Goa, at St. Cajetan Church interior and external conjunction of two empires

AUTHOR
Viraj Vassant Naik is a Printmaker born in Goa in 1975. He has done his post graduation from Sarojini Naidu School of Fine Art, Nampalli, Hyderabad in 2000. Artist-in-Residence, Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium in 2012.
He has committed to the practice of his profession through participation in numerous shows all over the planet: 'Mythical Menagerie’, Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong; ‘Speaking of otherness’, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai; ‘Hybridization’ India Fine Art, Mumbai; ‘Landscape with possible monsters’, Travancore Palace, New Delhi; ‘Blue ants’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; ‘Anxiety’, Museum Gallery, Mumbai; ‘Metamorphosis’, Galeria Cidade de Goa; 7th International printmaking Biennial of Douro, Portugal; “Rebirth of Detail” Sunaparanta- Goa Centre for the Arts; 15th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh; “Hybrid Identities” Edinburgh, UK; Krakow International Print Triennial, Poland; Scion Art Installation Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A; 10th Biennale Internazionale per L’Incisione, Acqui Terme, Italy; 6th KIWA Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan; “New perspectives of India” Gallery Avanthay contemporary, Zurich; “Reading paint” Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok, Thailand; “Strangeness” Anant Art Gallery, Kolkata, India; “Portugal through the eyes of Goan artists” Consulado Geral de Portugal, Goa, India; Minaaz art gallery, Hyderabad, India.

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