Rabindranath Tagore Toy Pen

Toy Object 006 — Rabindranath Tagore Toy Pen

Every artwork is a step towards a place I need to be. I don’t know what it looks like or where it is. All I know is it’s a place without fear.

Wrote national anthems for two nations. Gave back a knighthood in protest. First non-European to win a Nobel Prize in literature. Over 2000 songs that still live. Founded a university. Began painting at 60 and still showed across the world. One of the greatest minds to have ever lived.

“Where the mind is without fear, and the head is held high”

— Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)

Toy Objects is a collection of artworks by Amrit Pal Singh that transforms iconic cultural figures into functional childhood artefacts, highlighting how creative tools from our past shape who we become.