Prelude to Civilisation Ere long ago a man from heavy rain walked under the great bough. He learned the way of leaves, and joining two of them made the first sartaal. He added more leaves and made the patda. Under heavy skies, in pouring rain he remembered the first tree and wove the gungoo. Thus, was created the first act of gathering. These simple accumulations, were his earliest possessions, later giving way to objects of daily needs; he learned to collect, to break, to weave, and to appropriate. In other words, he had learned to tame nature for his own benefit, he laid the first sow for a larger civilization. The history of art is thus also a reflection of mankind's earliest ideas of accumulation. ‘Prelude to Civilization’ by Aayushi Majithia and Rohit Murmu is a humble effort to give a glimpse into these modest inventions. The other half of the stimuli— the approaches of earliest minds, apart from the colourful acts on rocks and earth; from gods and religions, from rituals and spirituals. This cautionary tale perhaps can help substitute the thin line nailed between the imaginary domain of art and craft. The gathering aims to rescue art from its imposed conventionalism and rigidity by exposing its very roots, the first germ.