The direct descendant of renowned artist Kuber Singh Shakya whose works are all over Asia from Kathmandu to Ladakh, Tibet, and Bhutan, Rabindra Shakya comes from a family with a long line of artisans. His father, Rudra Raj Shakya, is also an artist known for his works on metal. Rabindra Shakya learnt repousse, art of embossing or pressing shapes into metal, from his father and is now passing all of his family knowledge to Mureen Drdak, the recipient of the 2011-2012 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for Nepal. Together, Drdak and Shakya are holding an art exhibition titled The Prakriti Project: Eternal Visions- Contemporary Forms. The Prakrti Project which was inaugurated on Feb 9 by Patricia Mahoney, the Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of the United States of America, is exhibiting a total of 22 pieces of which 10 are by Drdak and 12 by Shakya. All 12 sculptures by Shakya are on sale and the prices range from NPR 50,000 to NPR 1,550,000. The price tag on five paintings