when mark brusse read a magazine ad for an artist in residency programme in gujarat he wasnt sure about applying for the same while i travel a lot due to the nature of my work i have never been to india before i asked my wife and she said that i should give it a try and spending a month in vadodara has been a great experience in particular i loved being at the bazaars here during the afternoon says this hollandborn parisbased artist while this is his first visit to india brusse is pretty familiar with the names of lata mangeshkar and mohammed rafi thanks to his visits to an indian barbers shop in paris with a smile he quips in europe artists are paid a certain token amount every time their songs are played on the radio here no matter where i went he visited a few places in rajasthan as well i could hear lata and rafis songs being played by different radio stations so i believe that they would have made a lot more money had they been in europe talking about how he ended up staying in paris brusse shares i wanted to see the world and so always wanted to move out of holland i received a scholarship and went to paris for eight months and i have ended up staying there for more than five decades now however i dont really believe in fate it just happened like that asked about what impressed him the most during his trip he says the best thing about india is the dignified way in which even the poorest of the poor live their lives that way they are superior people it has been a nice trip and i would love to come here again