DHAKA, Bangladesh (Daily Star/ANN) -- For visual artist Shakil Mridha, art did not begin in a studio or classroom; it began in his very own ancestral home. "Art, to me, was the minimalist form of a toy parrot I saw at a village fair. I used to try to imitate its specific eyes and tail in my notebooks, and that's how my understanding of 'how art should be' began to grow," he recalled with a smile.