tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24749537090461040382024-03-13T08:20:12.102-07:00Joyotee's Art and Perspectiveme and my musings................................Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-12790881072075482722019-05-27T19:16:00.003-07:002019-05-27T19:58:02.661-07:00Crafty Me <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It’s been a year since I curated the show Foraged Roots. A group show of four ladies out of which two were my dear students and another a lovely artist friend. On this weekend going through the shots I reflected a little. <br />
It happens to me often. I am asked am I still doing art. My reply is a civil yes, I am. Here I shall elaborate a little about me and my art. Over the years people might have noticed that I have stopped participating in art fairs and all the numerous exhibitions that an artist’s finds themselves invited to participate in. No no, this is not about the organizers and their business model. To each their own. This is more about me and my personal journey. <br />
Yes, there was a point I was doing too many exhibitions and participating in too many art related activities. I was feeling the burn out and I decided to take a deliberate break from it all. It meant a lot of thinking and rethinking. I started spending more time with myself and my thought processes. I did more of experimentation in mediums and techniques. It was a great break from the pressure of creating constantly. Yes, there is a pressure to create for full time artists as this is our livelihood. For those in a regular job I do not expect you to fathom art and art being a career but trust me it is a career and one that we artists do take very seriously. Imagine just imagine how boring your corporate world would be without all the colour and the much-needed conversation we allow you all. <br />
Coming back to me and my journey. I took that break and studied and taught art. My students who come home to learn stayed with me on this journey and never once asked me why I was not exhibiting. Love them for that. I did some open houses to just stay afloat and make some sales. It was nice to see that people did turn up just to connect and see what I have been up to. I did a couple of exhibitions in which my work was selected to be represented. That did feel good. Not having to pay to participate and instead get paid for the sales. Some other projects, designing and the kind kept creeping up keeping me afloat. And then lo and behold one morning I decided it’s time for me to go back to the wage earner work force after a 17-year hiatus. I must admit it did feel strange at first and so much learning and unlearning to do in the process. <br />
The best part about the job is it allowed me a lot of creative space and designing too. So, in that respect I was still creating every day hands on. Yet every time I got a chance, I painted, drew, played with colours. In fact, the space that it all came from was a free space without the pressures or the need to sell. That itself is a liberating factor. And of course, happy things happen when the state of mind is free and happy. <br />
I am now working on another art project which will be time consuming and exhaustive in the months to come and this is outside the job scope so will be on spare time and my ways of giving back to the society through my art. <br />
Apart from this I am also happily looking into my state of being, my mind and creating from the core of who I am. I am essentially a naughty observer and I am bringing some of that naughty self in my art. A big shift from who I used to be in my artworks. They were always commentaries and were serious in tone. So contrary to who I am as a person. Yes, for those of who know me socially can vouch that I can single handily keep a party entertained. It has been a fun journey of understanding the self and then extending that to the artistic expression in the last few years. Am I happily creating? Yes! Am I creating with an objective to showcase? Not sure! I live my life far more spiritually then I used to earlier. I do not chase anything. If things are right for me, they will happen. Meanwhile I can continue my crazy observations and keep doing what keeps me happy and motivated. Art heals the body and the mind and while the health took a beating early this year it was my art and my meditation that helped me get back on to track. So here’s to more naughty observations.</div>
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Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-43989786083496851912019-01-22T21:14:00.002-08:002019-01-22T21:14:24.508-08:00Recyling My Thoughts
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Its been a while that I have taken
to expressing. Loads has happened since I last typed thoughts. Personalities
have died, Oscars were won, battles fought, treaties signed, economies grown or
shrunk, babies were born, some more animals were probably the last of their
species, wardrobes were either expanded or shrunk, the planet was raped some
more, the land fills are got fuller and our mind continued to collect clutter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yah all the above you want to
shrug off. However, can we shrug it off? Can we not assume responsibility for all
our decisions that are making the planet one huge landfill? I keep asking myself
these questions. As an artist who recently got converted to 9 to 5 slogger, I
am often confused about the personal decisions that most of us make. </span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">December
saw me without my housekeeper for a few days. Instead of choosing the plastic
plate route, I continued to use ordinary dishes and choose washing over
disposables, as I saw it a great way to make everyone at home contribute to
house work. Needless to say, the kids did not enjoy it but it was school hols
and they learnt some skills in domestic handling. </span></div>
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bring yoghurt to work for breakfast with a fruit on days I can manage to do so.
I was getting the market brand although at home we do make fresh yoghurt. Made the
change to bringing fresh homemade yoghurt in a box with fruits chopped in it. My
helper was adding the plastic spoon; got her to quit that habit and I bring a
steel spoon which I wash and bring back home. </span></div>
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have often wondered this entire process of art making and artists screaming the
most, for the environment is quite hypocritical. My current time schedule and
mind frame allows me for just some drawings. With less I say more. I feel less
and less the need for paints and glues and other toxic material that add more
rubbish to the environment. I mean let’s face it, how many are buying art. So
why bother. If its just an expression a drawing suffices and a water colour
sometimes to express some notion of fluid colours. </span></div>
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birthday is around the corner. I have too many clothes and I do not even wear
most of them. So, another growing up factor. No need to shop for the heck of
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at the workplace, slowly trying to poison minds into the more environmentally friendly
way. It’s a long road ahead especially for local companies, to break away from
their age-old norms of business first and looking into immediate profit, over
planet gain. The road ahead is long and arduous. Meanwhile I am equipped with
my mind and wagging tongue. The pencil though weaker than the pen is easily
erased, but the paper can be re-used. Ha ha Gotchya!! Enjoy this artwork below
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Displacement, migration, borders create a
certain need to locate and search for a bygone time and space. As global
citizens of today most of us have lived in more than one country having moved
to mingle, circulate, create, survive and move on to the next space. When, in
this constant spatial movement we attains a dizziness, we seek to connect to our
roots, the core identity of our existence. Foraged Roots is that experiment to
understand an artists’s co-relation with roots, severed or otherwise.</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Joyotee,</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> a practicing artist in Singapore for 17 years
has curated in this show<i>, Foraged Roots, an
exhibition of four artists and their continuous understanding of their current
search of their past”</i></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><b>These artists, are currently placed in Singapore,
where the dimensions of time converge them into a collective study in Foraged
Roots. Supernormal is the space Joyotee needed to put this show together. Supernormal
is in Kreta Ayer, the shores on which Singapore, grew, developed and evolved. It
is a space small enough to question, the proximity and boundaries and yet the
lack of gallery rails and the contemporary display setting made it the right
space for these nomads to converge. This is a place that invites anything but
normal. Hanging displays from the ceiling to the floor and glass wall displays,
Joyotee wants to put forth these talented women and their practices through the
underlying weave that binds them all.</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Paroma Ray,
a trained lawyer, turned language teacher, a mixed media artist, an avid traveler,
an obsessive coffee drinker and a young mom of three kids, started her journey
with art by learning from Joyotee, since 2014. Paroma, is a profound old soul,
a witty observer of society and its pressures. Through art she has unraveled a
world of possibilities, letting go of all her inhibitions and she is ever
thirsty to expand her understanding of new media and expression. Paroma made
Singapore her home in 2012.. Paroma says, “</span><span lang="EN-US">My work for Foraged Roots is personal. My works have led me to examine my
belief in me, being a rootless person, looking at my own roots being stuck in
time”.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Georgia’s<span class="yiv6792996200"> fascination with textiles began as a child on her
Grandmother’s knee. Fabric and fibre have been an integral part of her
life. A few years ago, she began incorporating fibre into her art. What
began as an experiment has become a driving force in her work. She stresses
that working with fibre has such a rich association with life and sees it as a
metaphor for the linearity of life. Altering the canvas through cutting and
stitching creates new tensions and replicates the changes that happen to us as
we go through in life. Georgia, who is here on her second stint in Singapore,
arriving this time in the year 2012 says, “Foraged Roots, is the thread itself
which binds me to my roots. Using fibre to represent my personal journey
directly connects me to all the women in my family who work with fibre, and
with cultures with strong fibre traditions”. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Nivedita, grew up mostly in Singapore, making it her
home in the year 1999. She was gifted with an innate affinity towards colors
since childhood which took form and shape under the tutelage of Joyotee in 2013
when she began understanding herself and her language of expression. Soon
after she had her first public exhibit in Shangrila, Singapore, later also
displaying at World Art Dubai 2016. Nivedita loves working with children and
has taught kids while she stayed in Dubai, between 2015 and 2016. While
Nivedita aspires to take the bold and wild colours of her palette and bring it
to a future in Art therapy, her personal relation to Foraged roots is an
introspection into her genetic make-up. In her work she explores a correlation
between her immediate roots through the symbolism of grand mother as a chief
matriarch and the distance of time, space and enforced family roots. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span class="yiv6792996200"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Tamara a trained fashion Designer from Spain, and a web
and graphic designer from Israel, was born and raised for a good part in
Russia. Today she calls Singapore her home. Tamara</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> equates a move in geographical location
to a new birth and she believes the Singapore has helped her connect to Foraged
Roots. She states, “It is a great and challenging opportunity to explore this
subject as a component in one’s stability, sense of belonging or
identity. I’ll never stop asking myself what the roots are, in order to
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Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-43637290031562847702017-11-15T02:50:00.001-08:002017-11-15T02:57:59.213-08:00Your Ordinary Travelogue ….or so….<div class="MsoNormal">
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Running…moving….speed…..keep going don’t stop….sea of humanity….myriad
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Automatic, not my mode
on the Nikon body. My own thoughts. My Mind, My Life. Auto mode. Just do, just
function. Breathe. Do. Do Breathe. Eat, Observe, Do, Watch, Judge….no judge we mustn’t.
STOP…..go back….good subject, zoom in……focus…..now pan on the biker. Observations.
Now blank….Just do…..click click click …..lets click. Precision, zoom in.
Sadness, filter, disgust, hide, smile, travel shot…Tick its done. Observe….happy,
hmmmmm, for now. Shots are good. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Tiredness, sleep, awake, food, Delicious lemon pie…….life is
good. Room…..observations. Read….more observations…….Lets go out Beautiful
Sunshine. Social media…Shut Up once and for all….Out for a break!! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Walk, see, click….not
so clicky ……..still click……love the weather, vanity, I look good….check out
lens person reflection, yes good. !5 years later. Loving the space, the
eclectic sense. Observe observe some more. No hashtags, no words…..just be.
More words, more weapons, more….. Ah beautiful lines. Loving the lines. Love
this city. Bow, bag checked, arigatou gozaimasu…..Walk in explore….Ticket…..nothing
familiar, no more stroller, just my camera and me. My baggage, my thoughts.
Stop already. Does it matter where they are from. Here just like you. Fancy
camera……can’t afford that. Time…..loads on my hand…..explore…..see….love the colours,
the weather. I want this moment to freeze…..awww babies…..adorable….not mine…..don’t
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Witness to a lot. Beautiful, so well kept…I love this city….I love their
aesthetic sense….I have evolved, no! I have eyes now. Different ones. Looks
nothing like before. No resemblance. That’s ok no? <o:p></o:p></div>
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be. Lovely weather. Fall colours. Just see. Deep inhalations. Long exhalations.
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shots? Do I have to? Shops not yet opened. Loving the quiet morning air. The
buzz has not yet begun. Less touristy. Just burst of colours. Bright sky, cold
day, my Nikon. Me in auto mode. Let’s go…..click click click……an hour elapsed.
A quiet moment. I bow down. Sanity….no wait. A quiet moment. Back to click
click click. Here, there, no look there. I posed. Partner clicked. Vanity…oh
yeah…loving it. Bad angle, good angle. Who cares!! 30 second fb fame. Hungry…Breakfast?
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pictures. Let’s flow. Mt Fuji beckons. 15 years ago…memory flashes…no view…just
clouds. Will I see you this time. I meditate. I pray. You appear. First glimpse…far
far away. I breathe. Please stay. You did. We reached. Beautiful cold lake
Town. Loving it. OMG this is heaven, or something like it. Dump bags lets go.
OOOooooo the colours, the crowd. Where are they coming from. So many of them.
Fall festival. Me… you…. all of us here. Click….selfie sticks. Vanity….oh gawd
why here. Judgement creeping in. Stop. This lil bridge, you me and Fujisan.
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it. My spot. With Boatman. His shack. Quiet jetty. Closed for the evening. Me
you and jetty and the Glorious Mountain. Stands tall. Evening light splendour.
Bathing in the light. Me you and Fuji all cleansed. Precious. Let’s breathe.
Hold it still. Can this be forever. Coffee, yes please. Coffee with the best
view. Not so hot, so what! Ducks. Quack. Brrrr…..cold Brrrr….click we must. <o:p></o:p></div>
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cold. Can’t feel my nose. Average shots ….a memory created. For whom. Me me me…..I
need memories. Me in auto mode. The chatter it won’t stop. I don’t want words. #nowordsplease.
Just breathe. Done...cant shoot sunrise…rains forecast. Tired legs, strained
shoulders….doing a mental dance. Yippeee no hike. Thanks to Hotel owner guy,
who kindly offered to take us. Nice fella. Good looking too. But so happy can
sleep in. Tired feet. I wake nonetheless….5 a.m. crazy winds, the rains. Sleep.
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Breathe, breakfast
with the best view ever. Serenity this is it. A fresh snow dust. Its clearing.
More pictures. Oooo these colours. Collect, gather, throw on canvas kinda yummy
colours. They are coming. Make more pictures…..we do. Ah well….lets do the Botu
(Silly touristy feel) Flip, Smile, Flash the teeth. My jowl… your head cropped…re-do.
Ok Okay….lets go. Whirlwind of a trip. Head buzzing. Is it the cold. The pace…the
space. Its me. Auto mode slow down. Pace slow down. Happy. Content. Gratitude.
Feeling it. Ready to go back. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Gun on the door. So
what. Let’s enter. Follow me. My intuition rules. Sign language. Yes can do
vegetarian. Back of the room. Speechless. Zen room. Zen view. Couldn’t ask for
better. Breathe, Eat, experience…..overwhelmed. Senses fused. Me, you, blended.
This view. This artful food. This Zen mood. Camera in switched off mode. Set
aside. Words cease. Let’s be. Breathe. Breathe….Long deep breaths. Let me be.
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The above is my
experience abridged into a stream of consciousness mode. I however do want to
recommend two places. Firstly, the place we stayed in Lake Kawaguchi. Amazing
view from the home, but it’s the hospitality and the warmth that has me feeling
so much love for the place. The Weekend Shuffle, Lakeside Inn, Lake Kawaguchi.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another accidental discovery was our last
lunch at Fuji. A beautiful Zen space with minimalist décor and the same
aesthetic touch brought to the food. Lovely couple run venture, and a self-taught
chef who can give a Michelin-star chef, some insecurities. Toyoshima near the
train station at the Lake Kawaguchi, named after chef, Masaya Toyoshima. Don’t
get intimidated by the gun handle on the door. <o:p></o:p></div>
Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-81816114031470175662017-10-04T18:56:00.000-07:002017-10-04T19:01:11.319-07:00Work In Progress :I Am<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I think, I observe, so I am. <b>I am</b>. Two words that seem so harmless
can take on so many different connotations, once we add a third word. Humour me
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I am Beautiful, I am Gorgeous, I
am Famous, I am Powerful, I am Liked, I am Loved, I am Knowledgeable, I am
Rich, I am Critical (in whichever way you want to interpret this), I am
Important, I am ……….. and on an on…… I am an Observer, I am Alive. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes I am alive. I am kicking. I
am collecting my experiences. I am living my life. I am Happy. Or so I think. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am and I was. I was immersed in
the doldrums of festivities and literally so. The Durga Puja that I attend here
in Singapore arranges for a Dhakia (a drum specific to the West Bengal called
Dhaak, and the player is reffered to as the Dhakia) to fly in from India. All
that noise, colourful visuals, socializing and eating has left my senses a
little blurred. I am still groping and getting back to the grind. Beautiful as
those days were there were thoughts that were running through my head. I shared
on my social media wall the significance of the 9 goddesses to the night nights
of festivities namely Navratri. Well if you are not well versed with Durga Puja
and Navratri I would suggest Wikipedia or just turn on the news feed of your
Indian friends in Singapore and you will know exactly what I mean. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So while the Goddess was here for
Nine days, all the Devi’s were slaying their wardrobe demons and out in their
fan-fare to show their ultimate victory avatars. I was partaking in the rituals
of enjoyment and merriment I simultaneously continued, with my routines of
Pranayama, SKY, and Sadhana. Longer Sadhana’s during this time as I found that
the meditation was far deeper. Must be a reason why this festival and Shivratri
are a must for a person to reflect on for their spiritual growth. I am not
going to go into the scientific reasons behind these two festivals being so
high on the energy factors. However, what I will touch on is the fact that both
have a cultural connotation and are celebrated all over India in different
ways. As an ancient culture dependent on agriculture it does not come as a
surprise that much of these rituals were to do with either harvesting or laying
the ground down for new crops. Celebration makes it easier to bring the
community together and adding a moralistic tale too helps. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On a more personal level, we do
harvest and lay down the way for new. And this happens in our body everyday
with the cells that drop and make way for the new cells. Our body is the
biggest example of the Brahman, the Universal existence and the supreme
consciousness. Everything is cyclical and is happening. All is here to stay.
The soul the body they all continue their journey. The energy assumes different
forms but it continues to exist in new avatars. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The addition to all of this is
our own thought process. The Demons are within our own thought process as are
the Goddess that slay them too. It is this constant observation of our own
thought process and how victorious we have been in vanquishing our demons that
determines our own growth and happiness. As I grope with the daily threads of
my life, I am returning to work and I found myself working on a collaborative
work that will enhance my skill in patience but hopefully will also be
meaningful to the target group. Constantly while working on this I remind
myself to observe my thoughts, my actions, my demeanour, and my choice of
words. They are not always in keeping with my expectations. However, I remain,
a work in progress. Meanwhile I continue to plan for this project as I realise “I
Am” (Sohum). <o:p></o:p></div>
Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-49491369245573625342017-09-06T08:42:00.001-07:002017-09-06T08:42:37.774-07:00Work In Progress: Meditation in Motion <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The father of Modern Electricity,
Nikola Tesla was not just that. A
century later the world is embracing this genius and what he understood is the
very basis of the universe, “Vibration”. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Interesting to note, this unique
minds relation with Vedic knowledge and his close interaction with none other
than Swami Vivekananda. It is after meeting Swamiji, that Tesla began using
terms like “Akasha” and the concept of luminiferous ether to describe the
source, existence and construction of matter. Tesla’s use of Vedic terminology
provides a key to understanding his scientific views of electromagnetism and the
nature of the universe. Thanks to Tesla today scientists world over accept the
universe is made up of energy. To know more about Tesla and his fantastic revelations
all you have to google is this series of numbers 3,6,9. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My reason to name the said
display of work this year 3,6,9 was not a random choice. I recognise that I am
also responding to the vibrations in and around me. My current vibrations had
me think and re think about these universal mathematical patterns. Patterns which
are pr- historic and are found in all pre-historic art, and in different parts
of the world, from different cultures and spaces and dating way back to any
formal way of religion. Yes, I am talking of the patterns we very often find embed
in nature. Be it the Fibonacci sequence of the spiral, or the formation of a Yantra.
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A Yantra is the yogic machine of
a visual instrument that serves in meditation. It is the microcosm of the
universe and hence it is the body while Mantra in the mind. Through sound
vibration experiments, scientist have seen the formation of these Yantras. Atoms
and Molecules reverberate to these sounds and create certain shapes. The
universe has left its blueprint through the shapes it surrounds us in nature
and through the vibrations it engulfs us with. With the daily chaos of material
life, we have drowned these sounds and vibrations. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Recently I found myself very
intrigued to the mathematical, geometric patterns. Intrigued by the Yantra
world we inhabit, I started doing my own research and I am still working on it and
while I do so many other revelations keep coming my way. I have also been
deeply interested in the Kali Yantra as a concept. The term Kali comes from the
word Kaala. She is the female consort or the embodiment of all the Shiva stands
for, the universal model of change. Humans by nature are averse to change and
hence fear it. It’s this concept of fear that over centuries gave her a
physical fiery form and various iconography and mythological references along
with it. However, Kali is first and foremost a concept. She is best visualized
in the form of a Yantra, as change and the universe’s model of change should be
an abstraction of sorts. Its nature should be defined and hence should have the
clear angles and edges of a geometric pattern. As religions took shape and form
so did the concept and hence she became a female with dark powers of Tantra and
all kind of symbolism attached to her physical embodiment as Kali. While I do
not negate the cultural belief of this form and the gathering of communities to
celebrate the female prowess, I find myself inclining more to a shape I find
easy to meditate with. Hence it has been very satisfying to find her in various
geometric patterns, through various tools and techniques. Through my limited sensibilities,
I have tried to meditate upon the formless one through, the formations my mind
creates. It’s a journey I began and it shall continue for I remain a work in
progress. Meditation in Motion continues….3, 6, 9……</div>
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Are you one of those Bathroom
singers as well? I think most of us are, No? There is a certain pleasure in
singing in the shower. Maybe it’s that complete feeling of freedom, privacy and
uninhibited sense of cleansing that makes you feel connected to your most natural
state of being one with the universe. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Once done and we wear those societal
layers after drying ourselves, we then stop the singing and we start feeling
the shrinking. Yes, if you notice the reason most of us do sing is because it
creates an expansion within our hearts. You feel open, free, happy and
liberated. Then why don’t we continue to do it the rest of the day. Why do
inhibitions creep in. Why the fear of judgement on being bad or tone deaf
singers, make us completely put breaks on what we love doing? I have often
wondered. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Masaru Emoto in his book the <i>The Hidden Messages of Water</i>, describes
how water reflects sound vibration that it is exposed to. The universe is vibration.
It came into existence through vibration and hence we continue to vibrate on
frequencies. Some frequencies heal us more than others. In depth documentation
reveals through photographs how the molecular structure of water changes after
being exposed to different sounds. Positive messages produce beautiful pleasing
structures and negative stimuli creates less coherent forms. Our body is made
up of 60% water and hence we are very reactive to the sound stimuli as well in
the universe. It is difficult to conduct such experiments on our own body
fluids and hence what we can do is conduct the experiment of feeling and observation
of our own breath patterns. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The act of just closing the eyes
and singing the praise of the divine has a very healing and magical feeling of comfort
and expansion in the heart region. Notice in a group when singing for the divine,
you close your eyes, and block all connection to your physical awareness of
your existence and you start connecting with your inner being. Hence you drop
the consciousness of “Am I sounding too high pitched, am I in Sync” and other such
thoughts just drop. You sway with happy rhythm of a sun flower swaying in the
breeze totally feeling the inner fields of gold blossom within you. The warmth
of that gold glistens every pour in your body and you come away from such a gathering
feeling rejuvenated and glowing. (The best facial if you ask me: P; try it
before your next party ;) <o:p></o:p></div>
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The contrary observation will be
the feeling and contraction of the heart region when damaging words are heard
or exchanged. That sound vibration would create a reaction of shrinking and
feeling small. This creates a chain reaction in vibrations and sensations in
the body. I will not go into the reactive nature of such vibration. Let me stay
focussed on discussing the beauty of singing and singing with sheer joy. (I
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I grew up amongst a family who
prides itself on being very rhythmic and artistically evolved. My grand father,
a doctor by profession was also a singer who used to be on the road for months
for his singing expeditions. My father an artist, my uncle a writer, my eldest
sister vocally trained by some great masters and although she doesn’t sing
regularly she still can put every one into a stunned silence when she does.
What I am trying to say, is that, there is that since childhood there is that
under current pressure to be good in whatever you do. And I grew up thinking
singing is not what I do. Trust me I had my reasons for believing so. I had
sisters who sounded like cuckoo birds who sang so beautifully and I just lost
my confidence to even do bathroom singing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It was much later on, during road
trips and with huge expansive beautiful landscapes I found myself breaking into
tunes and everyone in my company enjoying it. One such instance was my 6 month
daughter who was not taking very well to a sudden rule of a car seat, when we
changed continents. Bring a born fighter she was putting up a tough resistance
and she used to scream through the entire long 2 hour drives that we used to
undertake. It was one such a lovely start to a weekend morning and we set out
on a road trip and while she started her riyaaj I started mine. She tried to
keep up and soon her wailing became rhythmic and after a while she started
humming along with me. After 15 minutes of me singing away she was in stunned
silence with a huge smile on her face. Funny to note it was after this that she
stopped her car seat resistance and even started enjoying these drives. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sixteen years on, and she now is
quite melodious herself and is a bathroom singer but prides herself as more of
a dancer and a writer. My son is like my father. He relaxes himself through
humming. He hums whenever he is happy and whenever his fingers can’t reach a
gadget. He is the most zen person around me. He also lives a very uninhibited life,
and does whatever he is asked to with great ease, even if it is dancing in a
crowd. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, coming back to singing and
feel good factor it brings in you; what I am trying to say is we should sing,
sing in praise, sing in happiness, sing for when we want to feel happiness even
if the day is making us feel otherwise. Singing is food for the soul, like
breath is to your body. Who knows regular singing may even bring in some great
tunes. I am off to sing my Sunday tunes, you do so too. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Today once again I realised how
important certain progressions are and the series in which they must be
practiced. Let me explain but for that I need to describe last evening a
little. Recently I have made some lovely company in two beautiful souls. They
are beautiful in their inner and outer essence. In their company, I feel
complete and so nourished. The three of us have a lot in common apart from the repartee,
the search for knowledge, love and constant encouragement for each other. We did our first movie night together and they
both watched a movie in a language very alien to them and yet we shared a bond
through the food, the space and the experiences we shared. Time was well spent through the evening and the
date slipped into this morning. We parted to our own homes to get our rest, as
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The sun rose and I was up before
it did. I could not do my usual physical routine due to the lack of a few hours
of sleep. Yet the body was craving a deep rest. I did my practice of Sudarshan
Kriya. I was initiated to this ten years ago, which is my daily tonic. (To read
more about it I shall put some links below for you read up). After which I did
a guided meditation. (My morning flows like this. Selfishly the first two hours
of the day I give to myself; so, I can give much more of me to others once I
feel nourished). Today the meditation was nice and relaxing however it was not
deep like yesterday. We are constantly told not to expect and not to compare
our experiences with another or with our earlier experiences. Each meditation is
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However, I have already told you
the Mind is the boss. So, compare it will. The reason I ramble so much about
this is that to bring home the point that there is a distinct difference
between not having a physical activity, namely yoga (or it could be any other
form of physical activity of your choice), prior to meditating. There is a
method or formula to everything. Some of it can be tweaked, adapted to your convenience
but this progression should be accepted in its true form. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To explain it better, Yoga in
classical Indian thought refers to a way of spiritual practice. It suggests to
us characteristic ways of asanas, mantra, pranayama and sadhana (meditation).
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Jnana Yoga (Using Knowledge for
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Bhakti Yoga (Devotion seeking
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Karma Yoga (The service to living
beings)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Raja Yoga (Higher techniques of
mantra and meditation) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Hatha Yoga (Techniques of asanas
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While some schools of thoughts
practice only follow some of these I have been taught to follow all five. There
is a pattern and first is basically a sound body to house a sound mind. To put
it simply Hatha yoga is the first step and then follows the others. To come
back to my point that yoga should be followed by meditation. It is used by the
western world who refute the Vedic existence of yoga to just focus on a sound
body. Or a more desirable body. Even for arguments sake If we do focus on a
more desirable body that focuses on the Kundalini method of yoga, that too has
a purpose. Which is to make the kundalini rise from the second chakra to the
head chakra. Alas, the reverse happens and very often their form of yoga
remains a way to get fixated on the momentary pleasure of the second chakra. An
incomplete process of just yoga without meditation will result from falling out
of practice as they after a while will not see the true reason for physical
element of yoga. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Meditation is the result. Yoga is
the prelude. The mind needs to feel balanced just as much as the body. This is beautifully
explained in the first chapter of the Patanjali Yogasutra, where the basic principle
of yoga is to restrict the mind stuff from taking various forms or distortions.
Hence relating to the first point established yesterday of what Sri Sri often
calls the “The Monkey Mind”. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So yes, friends focus on that
body. Make it beautiful. Do your asanas with dedication and zest. And after you
have sculpted that perfect body through yoga or whatever other form of exercise
of your choice, sit. Sit and relax and breathe. Observe, that Boss Mind.
Through sheer observation meditation will happen. Trust me sooner or later it
will. And some of the days when you have late night which become early mornings
you can slack on the yoga but don’t slack on the meditation <span style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes, as a disclaimer I am a work in
progress and even after ten years I have good days and not so good day but I
take it all in my stride. After all I need a sound mind to create. And that you
will know If you have been following this blog, is also key to my mental wellbeing.
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Links to some things mentioned in
the above piece<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Patanjali-Yoga-Sutras-Ravi-Shankar/dp/9380592817">https://www.amazon.com/Patanjali-Yoga-Sutras-Ravi-Shankar/dp/9380592817</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.artofliving.org/sudarshan-kriya">https://www.artofliving.org/sudarshan-kriya</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-14217409762548957442017-08-27T21:37:00.001-07:002017-08-27T21:37:13.512-07:00Work In Progress : 1 Mind Over Matter<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Mind over matter something we
hear all the time. But what does it mean. To put it simply; through the day,
there is a lot that your mind, does get bothered over. Rather your mind makes
you feel a myriad of sensations by making you believe that this matters to you.
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Just think about it……a person
says something or acts in a way disagreeable to you, at the first level you
feel unhappy and from there on a string of different sensations and feelings
arise within you. Then comes the next step were discussion of this makes the “matter”
fester even more. The real funny part is, that the main cast to this entire
drama, is oblivious to this screenplay that is being directed in your thoughts.
And yes, who is the great director to this drama that is unfolding in you? None
other than the omniscient Director, The Mind. Hence goes the saying Mind over
Matter. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now that we have established the
Mind is over the matter, let us acknowledge this fact even more. Taking the
same scenario as we discussed earlier, say for example a remark that was not
very agreeable to the self, let us just see how the situation can be altered. The
thought occurs that the statement was not a compliment but a disapproval of
sorts. The best is to drop it then and there. However, we all know that the Director
calls the shots. So there goes your mind thinking about the whys, how’s and when’s.
From there begins evaluation and that results in a simultaneous feeling of
anger, jealousy and so many other feelings. These feelings then are going to
create at the weakest level a head ache and at a deeper level and with constant
surrender to the minds prowess, a downward spiral resulting in various bodily
discomforts and illness. There is a way to tackle this pattern. Since the Mind
is over Matter through a simple process one can use and alter the process. Just
observe your mind in this mode. Yes, that simple. Wither sheer observation the
entire pattern just dissipates. Suddenly the folly of exaggeration and delving
into a useless thought pattern seems fool hardy. The moment this realisation
dawns a certain growth happens. Yes, you have learnt to tame your Mind too. Observation
being the real Key. Notice even in this process of reading this short essay
your mind created so many obstacles. Yet if you have persevered and managed to
agree with me that every day and so many times a day we fight huge battles and
wars and every day we create epics and entire soap operas all through the power
of our mind. The mind is the Maya. It controls the matter. But what if you knew
how to control it. Stay tuned for the next part of Work in Progress. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Work In Progress is a series that I wish to write about myself. I am my biggest creation and with progressing life and expereinces I realised there is so much that I need to learn and work on. This is not a prescribed formula here. I am just listing my own positive experinces and sharing those with anyone who feels they can benfit from reading these lines. </div>
Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-37381522606493151232017-01-30T18:55:00.002-08:002017-01-30T19:10:24.940-08:00Adrift<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
It was in 2010 that I last
visited the island of Bintan, Indonesia. My memory of staying there in the villas, the relaxing time I had
prior to an upcoming solo exhibition that year, is full of lovely beach and
swimming memories. We visited again this long weekend, this being our fourth visit and this time too the company we
had made the trip just so worthy of memories. Yet there was one dark patch. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I tried swimming in the beach
waters and was thoroughly disgusted with the rubbish that was in the waters. Of the many previous visits I remember seeing fish swimming around us. This time
however all that we had wrapped around our feet was a lot of wrappers, plastic bags
and loads of plastic bits and pieces poking us. At one point I managed to move my son away, from a drift wood piece that had metal bits and nails
stuck on it. It was just not funny how many plastic wrappers of chocolates,
chips and other such garbage that were in the waters. I know I know, your
response would be swim in the hotel pool. Well, I did not travel go to a beach
resort to swim in their pool, when I can do that in the comfort of my
residence. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was saddened by what we humans
are doing to the aquatic life and the planet. Our constant need for material
goods, commodities and entertainment is costing the planet. I decided to not
just write about it but do my bit with my son. While the beach cleaners of our
resort very diligently cleaned the beach every morning for a few hours from the
sea weed that came adrift, they did not seem to be interested in the garbage
that come afloat. Along with my son and soon my husband joined us too, we stood
in the waves and let the rubbish come to us and then collected them and put
them, in the wheel barrows that the cleaners were collecting the rubbish in. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It was my wee bit of seva
(service) that we could indulge in during the getaway. I did feel the Universe was sending me an important lesson. I spoke with my son about the choices we make. We
did think carrying more home cooked food for the trips and the voyage would
reduce a certain amount of plastic. These choices matter and making the younger
ones aware of these choices also matter. As an artist the irony of all this not lost on
me. Yah I was not about to gather all the garbage to make a statement art piece
or an installation out of it. It was more about what choices I make as an
artist. No, I do not use disposable gloves for each artwork I make. We can’t
call ourselves concerned and not look into the processes we involve ourselves
in. It made me re- think of a lot of things I could do different and trust me
those will go into effect as I type this note. However, I did not think my
action on the beach went in vain. My son joined me in my effort and we had a
discussion about our choices. My husband who was first amused and then
bewildered at my actions soon joined me when I said “beach seva”, a true AOL
person he is :D Lastly the cleaners realised that they should pick plastic and
other rubbish too apart from the weed. Most importantly it just made me feel
good about bringing alur dum and luchi for all of us, (a yum Bengali treat,
unhealthy for normal days but holidays are for indulgences, so they make great
voyage food) and the fact that it was devoured makes it have a repeat factor.</div>
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Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-82025197055207382432016-10-31T19:51:00.000-07:002016-10-31T19:51:06.304-07:00W/underland : Maya Bhalla's solo exhibition<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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My trip to W/underland was full
of adventure. Yes, I met my Alice and she had big eyes all dilated and brown.
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of her W/underland. Maya Bhalla / Sohonie is what many of us call her. </div>
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I knew this wasn’t going to be
easy, writing about her or the work. I’m taking the plunge and yes this will be
a little personal. I first met her in 2008, her first show in Singapore, and
she was showing her paintings, while I was covering her co-artist, in an exhibition
happening at a gallery in MICA. Singapore and its transient ever changing
nature effects the live span of galleries and their existence too. The gallery
and its proprietor have relocated since. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t say we immediately clicked, but we
kept in touch. She went on to become a Mother and I waited and waited for her
to come out and play. It was in 2010 that I told her it was time she broke her
poetic silence and we work together. A good six years it has been and many
group shows and collaborations together, Maya and I have come to know a lot not
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very strong physically, Maya, with all her contradictions, reacts to her physical
environment in a microscopic way. Much of her material and techniques, create
that up-close, tactile, macro vision, to the world which one will not assume
she has due to her quiet demeanour. She is observing and watching her subjects can
be that little bug on the wall, or that shadow that just creeped up behind you.
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Maya in W/underland is playing
the role of the transient nature narrator, recording what she sees, and the
corresponding feeling, that it creates, surfacing a childhood memory. Her
primary symbol, be it Alice or Liana (her daughter) stand as a symbol of a
past, of a fleeting present, of a ray of light being caught in the palm, only
to find its wings like the butterfly trapped in her photographic frame. Maya is
making her tangible, tactile, memories linger, and create a poetic dance of
their own. Poetry emanates not just from her lines, but from the fine lines she
has painted in silver metallic shades, recording the childhood, carefree, state
of being. Maya writes, <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“My memory is tinted in the shades of cyan blue and white, they
feel cool to the touch. Preserved and shelved in little white boxes, to be
taken out and examined, as if upon prescription by a doctor for a particular
ailment or situation in this adult world.” These cyanotypes record her state of
mind, her need for a pristine white boxed memory, an almost surgical presence,
of a doctor carefully removing away painful thoughts and just keeping a pleasant
one to box away. In a Sylvia Plath mode she continues to web her own
W/underland, where memories survive the perils of time, where we leave behind a
legacy of happiness for the child; where innocence is upheld in those beautiful
lost moments spent in natures company, where watching a spider and its web is
more a spiritual experience than a <span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">arachnologists work at hand. </span></span></div>
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With the clean slate of porcelain
she webs her ink of memories sometimes in the shades of mud, and sometimes in
blues, and then the grain of time that gather in lines of black all gather
around and converse on the floor. Through these conglomerating lithography’s in porcelain it
almost seems like Maya makes a comparison between herself and the nature of the
clay. “<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We
forget that we are of the earth, we polished beings. Layer upon layer of excavated
things, mined things, dead things, we pile on top of ourselves, becoming a
conglomerate of stuff”. Or is she making a universal statement about the loss of
an age and legacy we are leaving behind for our generations to come. W/underland
throws these various thoughts, questions, feelings and responses through
mediums such as photography, clay, painting and printmaking. To sum it up I use
a line from Maya again, “It is a mixed bag, and like a child with closed eyes,
we periodically reach in and chance upon something”. Go and experience your own
response to the Alice within you. W/underland runs from 1<sup>st</sup> to the 6<sup>th</sup>
of November at Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film. </span></div>
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Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-80156791258782878662016-09-13T02:16:00.003-07:002016-09-13T02:16:43.920-07:00Salvador Dali at the RedSea GalleryMonday afternoon was at the exhibition. It was a collection of thirty years of collaboration between Dali and his publisher Pierre Argillet. Below are some images that I clicked on my phone. The entire show is well represented in a catalogue for sale at $60. Lots of thoughts and emotions, hence will not pen them down. Just one particular point of interest, that can be easily spotted in the images below that both Marilyn Monroe and Venus have been depicted with nails pierced on their body. My personal favorite was The 1914-18 War (still available) war by numbers and the symphony of it all so well strung together. Enjoy the show it is on until the 5th of October. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">It is the long weekend, and I decided to feed my
soul with the exhibition, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tales From India</i></b>, running from the
31<sup>st</sup> of August until the 17<sup>th</sup> of September at the Miaja
Gallery. The Gallery has brought together Singapore based Alpana Ahuja, Mumbai
Based Aashish Singh Tyagi and Kaushik Raha of Kolkata alongside with a special collaborative
project called Miaja Design and Bernard Plates. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The Gallery has a beautiful spatial feel to it
with brilliant lighting and tasteful display skills. For the weekend there was
also a pop up jewellery show by Iliana Arrazola. If you are going past Bukit
Timah road, amidst all that hustle bustle of the traffic, it would be difficult
to miss these huge colourful Chin Mudra Sculptures at the window. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Alpana, a friend and a co-artist was there to take
us around and so was the ever accommodating Julian Miaja of the Miaja Gallery.
The following is a gist of a conversation with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Julian spoke about how they have been collecting
work of various artists and over the years they like working and nurturing these
artists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Kolkata born, Kaushik Raha is one such artist, who trained from
Government College of Arts and craft. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Raha’s cityscapes create a correlation between his
surroundings and his artistic practice. His use of colour and light are to be
noted…the darker tones grounding his work are offset by an almost hopeful light
that radiates from the building facades. Each artwork depicts stories told and
lives lived on the streetscapes of India, framing the nuances of everyday life.
Kaushik is a recipient of Camlin Art Award from Camlin Foundation; Saibal Ghosh
Memorial Scholarship, and Gopal Ghosh Award and Scholarship from Government
College of Art &Crafts, Kolkata, amongst others.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Kaushik’s
work, brought to mind my artist friend Swaroop Sankar’s work. More on Swaroop,
in another blog post. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #353537; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Aashish Tyagi </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">is quite the multi disciplinary artist and </span><span style="color: #353537; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">has a need to pursue
public art and he explains, “We need a new social dialogue in our families and
society. It is important to understand other points of view around us. Art has
the ability to make you think and question.” Size intrigues him and he clearly
loves the impact on us. “Anything out of context creates an internal dialogue,
the mind is always trying to make sense of our situation by giving context, if
you take that away, it creates disturbance and thus an urge to find meaning by
creating a new or familiar context. The mind is looking for harmony but harmony
is not the solution, it’s rather a state, like dusk is the harmony between
night and day”. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Aashish
Tyagi’s, internal dialogue results in this current body of work </span><span style="color: #353537; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Gyan Mudra series, in
which he puts down these tales from the Indian mythology that he grew up on. He
felt an urge to design and create in collaboration with these amazing craftsmen
something beautiful and meaningful, thus in his small way helped to conserve their
crafts and heritage. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #353537; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-family: "Century Gothic";">On asking him over <span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif";">email</span>, why each of
these fiber glass creations only displayed the </span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Chin Mudrah, he
replies, “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The palm
separates us from all living organisms, all other species use the hand or the
palm for utilitarian purposes only humans use it to create amazing things like
the world we have created around us.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> The Gyan mudra, according to the
Indian hindu mythology is the most profound mudra out of the 10. It's used
while meditating, it opens our mind, to the wisdom of the universe and connects
us to the cosmos. The right hand is considered prime. On this
mudra are stories from the Indian mythology. They express the foundation of our
civilisation. The creation and the evolution, the giving up of the ego, to
become one with the gods.”</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">His span
of expressions stretches from Nudes in charcoal to films and documentaries, and
apart from working with prolific director-producer Shekar Kapoor, he also has
some of his works at the T2 terminal of the Mumbai International Aiport Art
Project. Currently Tyagi is working on an installation for a sports academy on
the outskirts of Mumbai. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">In the
black walled display room apart from Kaushik Raha’s beautiful water colours are
the collaborative Miaja Design + Bernadaud Plates. This is a limited edition
porcelain setting, for 6 which was inspired by the bustling streets views of
Mumbai, captured by Isabelle Miaja herself. The collection was designed for the
Speciality restaurant at Sofitel Mumbai BKC, as part of their limited addition
series. Each plate captures a moment in everyday life and how it is then
extracted, frozen into a singular memory engrained in porcelain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Julian showed me the full images from which
these extractions were made. For a Mumbai girl, it spells nostalgia, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as I saw familiar scenes of a frame makers
shop, to the flower and garland store, the clothesline that we grew up seeing
as important installations of our cultural fabric and of course the famous
Muhammed Ali Street and the antique shops. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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more detailed conversation with Alpana, through whom I was informed about the
current exhibition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Joyotee: Alpana tell me a little of how your
journey in art began?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Alpana: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #211e1e; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I discovered the artist
in me at 8 years of age, when I saw my mother painting at an art class she had
enrolled herself in. I was so impressed by the burst of colour and technique
that I started imitating her and made greeting cards by the dozens (since all I
got was paper to paint on). <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>Shortly after, I studied
under teachers who guided me in the arts and developed a special liking towards
watercolours during my time at the New Delhi Polytechnic. I especially remember
the outdoor painting sessions at the ancient Delhi monuments. Over the years, I
experimented with several mediums and my move to Singapore brought me to study
further at NAFA (Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts). I like to paint whatever I can
get my hands on; paper, canvas, cement walls, fabrics, wooden or even glass
artifacts. Animals continue to be an essential ingredient in my journey, and I
also volunteer at ACRES to rescue animals, bringing me closer to the core of my
inspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Joyotee: When and how did elephants become part of
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Alpana: </span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I have always been passionate about
animal causes and loved painting animals in water colour. On one of my trips to
Delhi I set out late one night to help a dog hit by a car....and it was a chain
of events that led me to the Co-founders of Wildlife SOS India. I was amazed to
learn about their work and wanted to help them through my art ( I have been
helping local NGO -ACRES with my art since 2005). So I painted a calendar for
2014 and used it as a tool to create awareness about Wildlife SOS. The elephant
I painted in that calendar set me off on a beautiful journey. I felt a deep
connection and spent many days with the rescued elephants, bonding with them.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-special-character: line-break; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<span style="float: none; font-size: small; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">I felt elephants paintings piling up inside me and couldn't
get them out fast enough! I was totally immersed in my muse...as if the
confusion had finally cleared and I could see my path. I now understood why and
how an artist can spend so many years just painting one topic. Years of
painting Lord Ganesha, part elephant, part human had transited into an
embodiment of the whole.</span></span></div>
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<span style="float: none; font-size: small; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Joyotee:
Your elephant foot print series with the elephant paintings behind have a beautiful
effect and I really feel one has to see it in person to get a full feel of the
emotions it evokes? Can you share with us how you get the elephants to create
these prints on your canvas?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Alpana:
</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The elephant
footprint series or 'Padhchinhs' were conceived by me in their current form.
Mahouts working with the elephants used to take footprint impressions of the
elephants and Wildlife SOS offered me these canvasses to work on and add my
art. But Colours are very important to me and I wanted to execute everything
myself from start to finish. So I pre-prepared the canvas myself, by painting
the backgrounds and then worked with the elephants, along with the mahouts and
a Vet. I work mostly with elephant Phoolkali, a 52 year old gentle elephant.</span>
The elephants are trained to lift their feet for a medical examination, so I
apply the Colours I want on the foot-palette and the elephant places it on the
canvas. Meanwhile she gets lots of bananas and treats as a reward. Once the
prints are done, I scrub her feet clean with a brush. She also decides how long
she wants to work. She is free to walk off to meet her friends!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>When she returns she brings mud
and bits of elephant poop also and sometimes this gets embedded into the
prints.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">100% proceeds from the Padhchinhs go to Wildlife
SOS for the elephants.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Animals
have no answer to two of mans inventions- money and the gun. And they have been
prosecuted, exploited, hunted, tortured by man using both against them.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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experience or stories you would like to share while creating these? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Alpana:
</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Last year I got a
chance to work with the baby of the herd- 6 year old Peanut. She was excited
and jumpy and put her trunk into everything including my paints, so the mahout
suggested I work with her hind foot. I started without thinking much.....until
I got smacked across my face by her constantly swishing tail! It was a narrow
escape, as the tail has hard bristles of hair and I felt like I had been
smacked with a toilet brush. So I got another mahout to hold her tail. We
started work......and then she decided to pee!! It was like a tap gushing, and
I had to quickly retrieve my canvas to save it, then wash and dry the space to
work again. Baby Peanut also polished off three times the amount of treats
gentle Phoolkali eats! This year I could not work with her as the mahouts said
she is very naughty and does not realise her own strength and just wants to
play. So the dozen or so foot prints I got are really very precious as now she
is much bigger in size also.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Joyotee: Do you think you have found your niche and do you
think elephants are something that will remain your muse for a while? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Alpana: </span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Yes I feel fulfilled and also
energised when I'm painting elephants. I do think I will be painting them for
the next few years. My future projects will include more animals like the Sloth
bear, and native wildlife of Singapore.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">One can see her passion and love for the animals, the way her
eyes sparkle when speaking about her process of getting the Padhchinhs done. It
takes years for an artist to find their voice. Alpana has found hers amidst
these majestic creatures. We wish her luck that her sadhana and her expression
will help her in her social cause of creating awareness for the animals. All
proceeds of the Padhchinhs go to Wildlife SOS for the elephants. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Please do make it a stop before the 17<sup>th</sup>
of September. I felt enriched walking out of this show. Wishing all the artists
luck with their expression and respective muses. </span></div>
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<![endif]-->Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-18885507314053603662016-07-29T17:54:00.002-07:002016-07-29T22:27:22.226-07:00Padma Gauri <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lajja Gauri and Padma Gauri by Joyotee Ray Chaudhury </div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the first age of the gods, existence was born from
non-existence.<br />
The quarters of the sky were born from Her who crouched with legs spread.<br />
The earth was born from Her who crouched with legs spread,<br />
And from the earth the quarters of the sky were born.<br />
</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rig
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I chanced upon her accidentally during a Google search. She
seemed to draw me in to her immediately. It was that Lotus head with that exposed
vulva Posture that had me intrigued. I had to draw her, and draw I did. The
first sketch, on the form that the first sculptures of her were found, in old civilizations,
life giving, flowering, in a blossoming phase. However I was looking for a
birthing goddess and I stumbled upon her as I wanted to articulate the current
state of earth and humanity. My second sketch is what she seemed to just be right
for. However due to the extraordinary combination of her posture with her lotus
head I started reading more about the Lajja Gauri. The name itself had me
intrigued and I did feel the name was a result of societies much after the
concept of this diety. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Her visually explicit representation is aesthetic and
pertaining to her cult birthing and not pornographic at all, contrary to the Victorian
socially constituted societies. Her first
reference is the Rig Veda, while her worship can be traced back to the 1<sup>st</sup>
century in the Indus Valley and is linked to Shaktism cults, she has the appellation
of the Goddess Aditi. Her description in the Rig Veda describes her limitless
and being uninhibited is her true form, free as the sky, open and vast. Gauri in
southern India is linked to Sati and Parvati, hence she is very much linked to
the Shaktism beliefs. Gauri is the manifestation of the supreme Mother,
limitless like the sky in her description, and is invoked more for her role in
fertility and progeny. She is the life giving or birthing force. She is referred
to as the Creator Deity who has given birth to the trinity. Other similar references
of Lajja Gauri are in Renuka Goddess of fertility, similar to Matangi and the
grama devata Yallama. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now to analyse her detailed postural references to variant beliefs
and practices in the East. Her “Uttanapad” posture which is the legs wide
apart, is to facilitate childbirth via full exposure. One leg raised slightly
higher than the other. Her sensually comfortable posture also has lotus
adoration through ornamentation. The lotus symbol follows as a vine through her
body almost rising from her base chakra as a seed and through her ornaments
onto the lotus she holds in both hands and then sees a complete manifestation a
full blossomed many fold Lotus as her head symbol. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To now understand the emphasis on Lotus as the most important
symbol that She carries. The Lotus has great significance in all ancient civilizations,
from the Hindu traditions to the Egyptian beliefs. </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">According to the Egyptian myth of world creation,
the lotus came from an original silt and from its chalice the divine Creator.
The lotus flower, opening up at sunrise and closing at sunset, symbolizes the
Sun God and the light expansion outside the original silt.</span> This
interesting as the slit here can be referred to the Goddesses vulva travelling upwards
to create the divine chalice in which, births and blossoms true spiritual knowledge.
The Lotus is the symbol of true spiritual blossoming. In the Tantra beliefs,
there is a subtle body within the human body, crossed by three channels known
as the nadis at the base. The Lateral channels where opposed energies, solar and
lunar, are winding around the third neuter channel and five basic points.
The total seven points referred to as chakras translating to wheels in Sanskrit,
coming with spikes form the lotus in stylized form. These centres are represented
very precisely in the Hindu tradition as lotuses with the petal number. <o:p></o:p></div>
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my bid to understand the Mother Divine in this form, the Tantra explanation of ascension,
seems to best express her. The “kundalini” rises in the static form of the
subtle energy, crosses successively the different chakras associated with the
physical, psychical and spiritual needs to lead the being towards the true
Knowledge and the full Realization symbolized by the thousand petal lotus.</span>
In the Taoist Tantra, the blooming is the result of an internal alchemy, marriage
of the essence (hsin) with the breath (ki), of Fire (Li) and Water (Kan) that
symbolizes the return to the centre, the unity of the essential state
represented by the lotus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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sum it up I understand the Lajja Gauri not just as a Goddess of fertility but a
Goddess that represents Life. She is life giving by nature. With an open vulva
the seed of thought germinates within her, and takes full form in her chalice.
Life and thought both move upwards experiencing the body pains and pleasures to
transcend above these for the ultimate birth goal, which is the spiritual manifestation
of a being. This is best represented in the manifold Lotus head, where the body
ceases to exist and only the pleasure of a fully realised existence persists in
the Padma formation. I hence would like to name her in my drawings as the “Padma
Gauri”. In my second drawing My Padma, is releasing the toxic state of being
that our planet has evolved into. This drawing is a question to our existing
humanity and societies, as to where we are headed, with our mindless growth and
violence. Is there any realization happening or are we on the path of self
annihilation……in that case her vulva will now consume existence. The lotus of
learning will not shrivel but stand true for ages to come, advising, that we
need to rise above the physical state of being of war and meaningless misery. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.academia.edu/5246382/Lajja_Gauri_the_goddess_of_sexuality_from_Mesopotamia_to_India">http://www.academia.edu/5246382/Lajja_Gauri_the_goddess_of_sexuality_from_Mesopotamia_to_India</a></span>Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-21368153778477892812016-07-13T18:56:00.004-07:002016-07-14T07:40:04.761-07:00Queen of Sheba The Singapore Sidewalk, an interview with Kavita Issar Batra<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify;">
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</i>Kavita is an Indo-British artist, for whom Singapore has been home for the
past seven years. She studied art with Ruth Perez in London, James Holdsworth
and David Kelly in Singapore. Her oeuvre spans oil, acrylic, mixed media
paintings, installation and photography. She has collectors in Singapore,
India, Dubai, Europe, Uk, US and Australia.
Below is the gist of our conversation. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Joyotee: Congratulations Kavita. Within a span of 9 months you have
rolled out your second solo and a huge body of works. Do tell us a little about
the making of Queen Of Sheba?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">Kavita: The
body of work represented in this exhibition started in late 2012. I found my
gaze being drawn to a whole new world underfoot on the pavements, while out
walking each morning in the neighbourhood we had moved into. </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> I started to record my daily observations with
my phone camera for myself and share with friends through Facebook. This then expanded into the Morning Walk
Montage page to allow a wider community to engage as also on Instagram. This has been an almost daily practice for
over three and a half years, no matter where in the world I find myself. It is
an art practice in itself but also the inspiration behind my paintings and
print making. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">End September early October 2015, I
had the first solo exhibition of paintings, I had been working on over a three
year period, inspired by the detritus I collect and observe, “Of Time, the
Elements and their Essence” also held at Intersections Gallery, Singapore. Following on from this, the gallery was keen
to share the Morning walk montage practice that underpins my creative processes
with a wider audience . I too wished to
share ‘my discoveries’ with a wider audience, especially of Singaporeans, an
alternative view of this island that is now my home and muse. This
led to this current exhibition.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">‘Queen of Sheba, The Singapore
Sidewalk’ showcases some of the Morning walk montage photographs along with the
musings I put up on Facebook. They have been blown up into limited editions,
Museum quality photographic prints. I
have also been working on some monotype prints using acrylic paint and the bits
of detritus, adding another point of conversation into the exploration of and
to give voice to this often ignored and trampled on ‘world’. Each of these montypes
is unique and cannot be recreated. The
final piece in the show is an abstract,
oversize (160 x 500 cm), mixed media canvas my ‘Ode to the Singapore Sidewalk’
that has provided so much inspiration to me. It is my muse. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"> My book ’Of Time, the Elements and their
Essence’ 2015 which contains highlights of the montages from over the three
years along with illustrations of how they inform my paintings is also
available. As is the ‘book in the box’ titled ’Queen of Sheba, The Singapore
Sidewalk’ this is 48 of the montages in a loose sheaf of postcard style cards.
Most mornings my husband, our canine companion, Bella and I walk for an hour or
so around the streets of our neighbourhood we try different routes and so this
format allows you to also walk among the montages as you please. At weekends we
walk to and in the Singapore Botanic gardens, a number of montages are from
there too. Both books have been designed and set <s>by </s>very imaginatively
by Brian Loke and printed in Singapore by a local firm. They are available at SS50 each, from the
gallery. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">K: The title comes
from a game I remember playing with my Mother as a young child. We would have to walk to most places in the
Indian Himalayan hill station I grew up in and to keep me amused my mother
would be the Queen of Sheba requiring me to forage for various things along the
way like a black stone or two red leaves and so on. Working on a book, to
accompany the exhibition last year, I wondered if my penchant for detritus
stems from those long forgotten childhood games. While now, I do not set out to
‘find’, as it is a more spontaneous process. I do not pluck or alter the pieces
I am drawn too. Sometimes, I do collect and bring bits back to my studio and
photograph the montage against whatever painting I am working on at the time. I
only use an iphone camera to allow this spontaneity as I never know when or
where something will catch my eye.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">J: Your
process is unique and it’s the observers eye that goes and picks her subjects
and her inspirations on her morning walks. So when do you feel that Kavita
starts emerging from all of this? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">K: </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">The individual leaves, tree bark
fragments, withering flowers, fruits and seeds, their shapes, textures, colours
are beautiful in themselves and better than studying text books. At other times
accidental juxtapositions reflect patterns of the macrocosm. The miscellaneous
remnants of our built up and industrial environment also fascinate – the
anthropomorphic line drawing qualities in curiously twisted bits of wire, the
feel of rusted metal bits too parallel the more organic parts of our landscape.
The pavements and surfaces are a canvas for these but increasingly evocative in
themselves. It is the interplay of time, the elements and the essence of each
individual piece that has me hooked. I see metaphors for my own mid-life stage
in the way this interplay takes place. It has changed the way I ‘see’ the world
around me. Often time a thought, a quote, a line of a song some reference will
pop in my head and becomes the thought to accompany the montage. My life
experience obviously colours how I look at what I see. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">J: Singapore
while known for its green patches is also doing away with a lot of its greenery
to meet the urban needs. How do you see your work speaking of the times we live
in? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">K: </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">When
I first came to Singapore seven years ago, I was captivated by the majestic
trees that line so many of the roads. Singapore is growing vertically at a
bewildering rate, glass and concrete towering over the tree line. The building work happens with minimum
disruption, when it is finished grown trees and mature lawn appear - our city
in a garden. The primary forest that covered Singapore is just a smidgeon now
even the secondary forest cover is shrinking. Yet left untended or untamed in
this climate, nature is quick to reclaim the land. The ‘city’ looks after ‘the garden’, the
detritus swept away and recycled as compost but before that happens time, the
elements and their own essence only determine how these bits die and decompose.
The only thing certain from the moment we are born is that we will die. The
specifics of when and how remain unknown. By slowing down our frenetic pace of
‘life’ becoming more aware of our surroundings, observing natural processes
around us, we can all become more mindful about our own way of living, how we
treat other inhabitants of this planet we call ‘ours’ and hopefully nurture
rather than negate this earth that sustains us all. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">J: You
have a niche here and galleries love working with artists who have found that.
Yet in your last collection we saw more of paintings and in this we see a huge
mix of mediums. So how was it received a) by the gallery b) viewer. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">K: </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">Marie and Louise at Intersections
have been amazingly supportive and have walked alongside me in this creative
journey. They see the importance of understanding the whole of an artist’s
practice not just what makes commercial sense and for that I am very grateful.
In todays world - the information onslaught, instant gratification culture, the
need to make a living and livelihood – so many demands on our time. However, we
also must claw back that space to just stop for a moment, allow thoughts and
ideas to mingle and spark debate and to enrich our emotional and spiritual
sides <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">It is very gratifying and humbling
that so many people who come into the gallery feel a natural affinity to what
they see in my art works especially in the installations of the detritus I have
collected. Being able to connect with people of different ages, ethnicities and
life experience is extremely satisfying.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">J: You
use your images to catalogue your finds and juxtapose those against some
painted surfaces created by you. These have been captured by your mobile. As an
artist who uses photography as her mediums, I have to ask you, Why your mobile
and not a more serious camera to do the same? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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continue to use my iphone camera to record my finds and take photographs. The
resolution is excellent and as you see in the exhibition the results when
printed are amazing. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">J: At
any point do you feel you are actually moving out these subjects from their
natural environment to make something what you see as your creation? Has this
process seemed too contrived and contrary to process of being an observer? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">K: </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">People
connect with the montages because there is a freshness to them which wouldn’t
be there if they were contrived. I do not feel I ‘create’ the montages I see my
role more as a facilitator, a note taker and interpreter perhaps. It’s a bit
like the tv programme ‘Britain’s got Talent’ or any such show, I give these
bits of detritus the stage to be the star on. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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thank you for taking the time to answer these questions? While I know you have
told me that your journey enfolds along the way, could we get a privy to what we
can expect from the sidewalks. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">K: </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">Joyotee
thank you for taking time to go beyond the visual at the exhibition and in
terms of my process. I never set out to make the detritus on the ground my
muse. Art has always been important to me, even while I worked in HR at
University and in the NHS in the UK , as
a mother to two young children. Since moving to Singapore it has become a way
of life. As to what next, I follow the flow from within. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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catch the exhibition, Queen of Sheba: The Singapore Sidewalk, showing now to
28th of August at the, Intersections Gallery 34 Kandahar Street Singapore 198892.
Also available at the Gallery are the books , </span></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">Of Time, the Elements
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priced at $50 and the book in a box <i>Queen of Sheba, The Singapore Sidewalk </i>also
priced at $50 only.<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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is at 11am on the 14 August 2016 (Sunday) Please register with the gallery </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"><a href="mailto:art@intersections.com.sg">art@intersections.com.sg</a></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-85235843147622869532016-07-07T20:24:00.002-07:002016-07-07T20:34:15.104-07:00No Alarm Early Riser and Other Fairy Tales (Reader discretion advised)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I thought this up at 3:35 a.m.
Yes, because I was awake then. Why you ask, well that is what the life of an
artist/mother is. If you are wondering, why I am rambling about my motherhood
role suddenly, let me take you to the beginning of the story. </div>
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A year ago, during the June
holidays and between a hectic work schedule and a crazy year which saw me very
busy artistically, I found myself signed up for a early morning knowledge
session, to start the day out with. It
was a great positive way to begin the morning and the knowledge was deep and at
some levels still sinking in. It always ended in a lovely breakfast in Little
India and sometimes that was more of a motivation to crawl out of bed. </div>
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The guide, for these knowledge
sessions is a very motivated individual and I always love watching how he
imposes upon himself these sadhanas*. Sometimes a 30 day sugar free diet, (and
mind you that to me is ultimate tapasya*) and sometimes a 30 day exercise
challenge. The knowledge and the exercise challenge I was completely sold on
and managed to do it as well. </div>
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The sugar free I knew was not
physically possible for me, as I am a Bengali and its anti my Bengali genes to
be sugar free. Over the years no matter how much everyone tries to scare me
with aging looks due to sugar, I would rather be a happy, wrinkled, rotund,
grey mass, than an unhappy fit, beautiful, creature. Yes I have made peace with
my tires and I know those of you know me will agree that there is more for you to
love. </div>
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To get back to my early morning
ramblings and where I am going with this. So now my same lovely self help group
(and I must add each of them are such lovely souls and such precious gems in my
lives that when they read this I know they will laugh along with me) announced
a 30 day challenge of waking up alarm free to listen to these knowledge
sessions in our own homes. This was announced on the whatsapp group. For one
year we have motivated each other with lovely messages and I have always been
very active in this group, if not in others. This group also has the privilege
of not being put on a one year silence. However the alarm bells in my head went
ringing on the sounding of this challenge. </div>
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The first day I noted they all
woke up at 5 etc to listen to the knowledge sessions and share their take back
from it. I kept mum. For those of you who know me, you do know how tough a
challenge that was for me. In fact I am learning that through this challenge,
how to actually stay away from an uncontrollable urge to react to each whatsapp
message. Day 2 came and went with another round of silence from my end. Day
Three started with me unable to wake up early for my cycling due to a late
night return from a friend’s house after the Eid celebrations on Day 2. I am
sure over here my husband will remind me (and as everyone knows in a long
marriage we all just wait to point the others follies and it’s almost like there
is an imaginary score board) that the late night return was due to my late
realisation that it was an open house from 1 p.m. and not 7:30 as I had
assumed, and even that thanks to being involved with a canvas I am working on.
We only made it at 8:30 and although it
was officially to end at 9 we stayed and chatted with them and it was a lovely
evening. </div>
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So to get back to the story. I
woke up on Day 3 at 6:10 a.m. when my daughter came to kiss me a goodbye before
she was leaving for school. Yes after four years of waking up at 4:45 a.m. so
she could make it to her school bus at 5:45, which involved dragging her out of
bed, getting her bathed, ready and between the two of us struggling over buttons
(as we are a majority of dyslexics in the family) getting her to gulp her milk
and make it to the bus stop on time was a major feat for the day. It’s been
three years since, when I have graduated to waking to just saying a tata before
she leaves for the day. Yesterday however she decided to leave later and I
could hear her phone blaring and I had to rush to remind her that Baba “needs”
to sleep until 7:30. I went back to bed, hoping to catch a few more winks,
however Little one comes in to say bye and rolls in and hugs and holds on
hoping each day that I will tell him he doesn’t have to go to school. Instead
as a ritual I motivate him torun along and take his bullies on, once for all.
After he leaves I know sleep has become a fiction and on the other hand I can
hear the canvas beckon me. I get up to tackle this new baby and also pack up
another baby that needs to meet its new Mommie. </div>
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My life this year has had a few
changes, amongst which is a life without a car. I actually love the time and
freedom it has given me. It just requires better planning for the day. My day
was chalked out, hair cut, drop off the order and then meeting an artist friend
and seeing her lovely exhibition. All of this was a tick with a smile and I
even got a ride back home in time for my art class with my little angels.
Although I summed all of this in two sentences this did fill up the day rather
miraculously. After the kiddos left I quickly whipped up a dinner between
shouting out to my fifteen year old, who, was practicing her drama facial
exercises, at the prospect of a humble home cooked meal, that gourmet food was
gourmet because you don’t have it every day. The Mumma monster who shoves
vegetables down her kids throats was quite shocked to hear her soon to be 10
year old retort, I think we should keep these vegetables, for the poor
especially since there are so many who don’t get to eat. Between choking over
my food and laughter and thinking I sent this one to speech therapy, I gathered enough composure to make him eat
his dinner and pack up my paraphernalia for a sudden shoot for a 18 year olds
birthday. </div>
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Quickly jumped into a pair of
comfy pants and a bright top to match the occasion and was happily surprised
with a very scenic venue. Due to client confidentiality I shall not reveal the
rest. It was a fun shoot and yes I do event photography as well, as after so
many years I can’t expect the husband to foot my art bills. For those who are
still gullible to think that art is a financially viable option, let me tell
you yes it is, but not for the artist. It is a money disappearing act for the
artist while it may not be the same for the galleries, collectors and so on and
so forth. </div>
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Came home and retired for the
night. Was hoping to catch an uninterrupted sleep but as by now you have
realised, this is more of a page from the artist-Moms diary, I was woken up with
gentle shaking on my leg, “Mumma, I can’t sleep again”. I had to do the needful
of stroking the head helping to count the sheep and amidst all this came out
the phone and the mid night voyeur in me. After a while he was fast asleep and
I was left with my thoughts. Here is when I thought, should I actually wake up
and join these knowledge sessions on Day Four or ………. And a big pause
here…….........Or just turn over and sleep. By now you figured out what was the
choice. </div>
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Moral of the story, while some
challenges are for me, others are not. I have to learnt to say No, and mostly
to myself. I have learnt that I don’t
need to pick battles. I am not a warrior and all I need to do is own my life and
lifestyle, the way I want it. <b>I am an
artist, a Mom, a daughter, a daughter in law and amidst all this I do have a
partner who not only is supportive but also the reason why this article has its
punctuations in its place. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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No persons or animals were hurt
during the making of this piece. If hurt afterwards, sorry you did not heed the
reader discretion. ;) </div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So Ravi sat, watching the little touristy noisy vessels going
pass him. One, more lit up than the other. It was that decorated time of the
year, when every little structure was sporting, their, little twinkling lights,
while every shop was screaming special deals on the festive bargains. There and
still not part of all this wear and tear, he watched detached, like an out of
body experience.<br />
His phone rang, he ignored it for a few times. After seven such calls, he
finally answered, "Yah, I’m ok. Sitting by the river front.... no I'm
alone. Yah you can come......but don’t bring anyone along."<br />
After a while Samuel joined him. He asked Ravi, "So u waiting for Godot
too?" They both laughed. <br />
Samuel then sent Ravi an enquiring look, Ravi shrugged and confessed he was
feeling too transparent in that crowd. Samuel nodded and said he understood,
"It’s quite a circus there! Don’t know what’s selling there.....artworks,
or people. Ravi then began, "I don’t know what is more disturbing, the
circus or the people who watch the circus. I mean, look at me; am i not to
blame? Don’t I want a piece of that cake, that they are all in there, battling
for. <br />
I can logically say that I feel I don’t belong there. But did i not come here
to be a part of this flesh trade. Yah Samuel, don’t look at me like that, just
because you and I are not buying and selling ourselves doesn’t mean others are
not. I mean did u see how Coral, was behaving. It corrupts the creative space
and disrespects, her own artwork. Can she not see that it’s not necessary to
stand there and lure people to her work. <br />
I mean the process it’s so sacred. It’s me and my space with my thoughts and
ability. What comes out thereafter is a result of that experience. Forget me,
can anyone actually make real sense of that thereafter? No they can’t, no u can’t!
So why am I expected to stand there as part of an extended display and answer
those banal questions? If I showed them my wounds, would they” stressing, “tell
me Samuel, would they feel the pain? No they won’t. However maybe just maybe,
there will be one person, who just was walking passed and stopped, stared and
felt the pang. Now just because she felt the pang do we have to force her to
buy the work? Maybe she doesn’t want a reminder of the pain. Maybe she just
connected for that fleeting second. Do i have to compel her to see that she
needs a daily reminder of the pain..... I mean isn’t it repulsive this entire
process? Come and see me somersault, clap and when you are done clapping, buy a
figurine at the door shop that will constantly remind you of what a buffoon I am."<br />
Ravi stops and Samuel sighs....... "Ravi, I know you think it’s impure,
this entire process. However this is how the world functions. Life is a market,
some will sell others will buy. You have to understand you are not selling yourself,
but a remnant of an experience. Some will not actually, just appreciate, but
also fathom the entire experience. And until that happens, your work has to be
out there looking. You are not a spectator in the circus, you and I are the circus.
Me for funding the talent I’m trying to uphold and show to the world, and you
for the mirror you hold, hoping to find your reflection someday in it. Alas,
once here in this market, all we will see, is the blood that bleeds and shadows
of people that used to be. You and I are not above this bazaar. We are the bazaar."
Ravi stares away in front and then slowly he resigns and rests his head on
Samuel's shoulder. Samuels phone rings, "Hello! yes, its 2,40,000. Yes, I’m
bringing him over. He will explain it, himself." Ravi smiles.They slowly get up to leave the river promenade. </span></div>
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<![endif]-->Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-87803349577878687912015-11-18T05:54:00.001-08:002015-11-18T05:54:13.774-08:00Breaking the Silence<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
It’s been a long silence. Definitely
haven’t felt the need of words. Or rather the silence helped me realise the
non-stop chatter of the mind…..and boy does it chatter. “Words”, are they the
respite from this marathon mind chatter? Yes, have been thinking a lot lately about
how words complicate more than they resolve. I think I like silence better.
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The current body of work has
sprung from the verbal silence and constant mind chatter. I observe a lot more
in this mode. Mostly myself, to the stimuli around me. I worked with a lot of
images shot lately. These images on their own did not become a work of
expression, but somehow shooting them exclusively and then bringing them
together in a single canvas, they actually starting narrating a story. The
story of the eternal query “who am I”, where do I feature in all this. Universal
question and oft asked you may say. However the handling is personal. I am
questioning in this body of work my own identity, my own crisis, my own stand.
Stand in what you ask. The basic stand in who am I? What is my racial identity?
What is my national identity? What is my standpoint if at all there is any? Why
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As an artist I react to the
circumstances I am dwelling in, the socio-political environment as a global
citizen. However the greater question is, should we not react as “human”
instead of an identity given to us if not at birth, then at a later stage.
These questions difficult to answer, yet I believe that the creative mind is
more responsible for being the voice of the time they are living in. The onus
is on us to bring the focus on what should be asked and what should be reacted
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Artists who show in every art
fair, start introspecting about where they are headed with their art and what
happens after the next fair, need to start looking into their own thought
process. As creative minds we need to take that long and hard look in the
mirror ourselves, before we start seeing the shadows of others in it. I know I’m
looking and I’m not liking everything I am see but it’s getting more and more
entertaining. It’s like this Technicolor movie, that’s just getting to that
suspense scene. So go grab your popcorn will meet you again with more juicy
scenes after the India Art Festival. ;) </div>
Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-82218464190267886612015-05-18T17:26:00.001-07:002015-05-18T17:26:28.705-07:00Exploration Continues<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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This year has seen a different stage in personal art
exploration. We (Maya and me) completed “Boundaries” an installation which was
part of the Goodman art festival during the ARTWEEK. It is a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>comment on the human encroachment of space,
virtual and physical. It’s a permanent display and Goodman Arts Centre were our
venue sponsors. Then came along Peregrination, which was an intense expression
for both us artist and our understanding of journeys. We also got supported by
the NAC for the same. During the exhibition we had some lovely workshops and
two of them for a special needs school. Both of us enjoyed that and we are
thinking of making it a more regular event in our lives. On the opening night
we both did not want to stand and mingle with the crowd and “explain” our
personal process and hence we took to doing a quirky start to the exhibition by
having a live painting installation which was site specific. It served the
purpose of entertainment and us not having to face the limelight. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span> </div>
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I thought I would take a break for a while and we knew we
had another big mural project coming up. We even set up our joint company to do
such public work. Yes Yellow Brush is now what the two of us own jointly. A
partnership requires lots of thought and understanding and more than that a
huge ability to give each other space and healthy criticism. </div>
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The break was cut short when my curator and good friend
Vidhya roped me into an exhibition themed on Buddha long after the due date. I had
lesser time than the other artists and was still reeling from the extensive “Peregrination”.
Vidhya also insists on pure paintings and hence I could not give her my mixed
medium work. I went back to traditional oils. I had fun I must admit and my
whole take is on saying it differently. With Buddha everyone does a face or a
hand. I have to move from the clichéd representation and hence in one I used colours
that are bright and unusual and was happy to have just his eyes and ears in the
painting, more on the Bodhi state of mind. The second one which was from a
photographers perspective was looking at Buddha from the back. The head which
along with the ears becomes an interesting focal point. Being such a laughter
maniac myself who loves talking endlessly about the Happiness program, it was
essential to have a lighter element and hence the floating Laughing Buddha was
what I rendered as a difference. It was a good opening night. Yet what I did
observe is unusual over confidence from first time and recently exhibiting
artists who tend to over price their work. A little research helps in such
cases. However this is when the creators ego steps in. Although very often
these people will take a huge cut when selling directly and hence creating a
complete hypocritical state in their own market standing. I wish them luck on
their endeavours and personal journeys. </div>
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Moving on Maya and I are now going to start our huge body of
work……we have been looking forward to getting this done. Its been months of
planning and I can’t wait to see the final product on our clients wall. Working
with Maya is always fun and we artists do enjoy our food so I look forward to a
lot of food exploration too. Stay posted will write soon again. In the
meanwhile enjoy these Buddha images. By the way, opening night saw my Bodhi do
the first sale. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The art of gallery lingo, or what you can call jargon exists
and the mango person, or in other words the common man is far often baffled
with the intricacies that this dialect offers. What would normally seem sorted,
seems unfathomable and too obtuse to connect with. What then, is the purpose of
these handouts, write ups and this exalted conversation that the gallery guide
subjects you to. Whatever happened to simple and easy to understand lingo you
ask! Is simple understandable language deemed unworthy in this realm of
creative beings?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In my pursuit to unravel this mystery lets discuss this
further to get a perspective if not an answer to the mind’s query, in what is
now recognised as International Art English (IAE) thus coined by David Levine
and his friend Alex Rule, critic and sociology PhD student at Columbia
university in New York. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Being an artist and often guilty of being caught up in this
verbal maze of interpretation where an “apple” will not be referred to as a “red
fruit” but “a red fruit of temptation which became the subsequent downfall of
Adam and his kind, and yet has the power to mould the future...”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let us probe further into finding a reason for this rather
digressive means of reference to the subject. Maybe a certain tone of textual seriousness
is conveyed through the exalted usage of the language. It is probably to convey
to the viewer, buyer or even browser, that they must drop their ordinary gaze
and bring in their most prized glance, to fathom the depth of the presented art
or their wallet, whichever be the case. Hence creating a psychological acceptance
of the price list. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">IAE, could also spring from the entire <i>avant-garde</i> movement which was
heralded by the French and which was a non conformist movement to previously
established rules in art and art movements. This new form of art needed new
language to describe it. Hence an even complex task, when translated from
French to English. Perhaps this also explains the rather French behaviour and
mannerisms of today’s gallery assistants and certain curators too. You will now
argue that if it is rooted in a cultural understanding of art why is it prevalent
all over the globe. Good point, but then most art norms are generally set by
the European art market. It is only recently that Asia has suddenly started having
its say. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One can create an amusing past time of collecting literature,
from various shows and exhibitions and doing a study of the language. This can
well be used in lessons aimed at teaching editing by de-jargonising. However
once simplified try using these as hand outs and I can tell you the entire
exercise of creating an aura of a collection and mystery to the artists thought
process is completely lost. Hence I would like to affirm there is definitely a
certain beauty, and therein a purpose to mystifying the subject in hand. This
is important when you are trying to re –interpret what has already been done by
the artist. Hence despite all these exalted notes “the artists perspective” is
often sought. The simplified language of the simple artist can sometimes even
leave the buyer de-mystified or slightly disappointed. Here is when the curator
jumps in and speaks for the artist and once again is very successful in re-webbing
that aura of extravagance embedded in visual jargon. I have seen that happen one
too many times, and sometimes even on panel discussions. Am I stepping on toes
here....but anybody who knows anything about me, knows that I live and get my
inspiration from these very tip toe moments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Coming back to the matter at hand this jargon namely IAE and
the need for it is something that even the new bee or hobby artist acknowledges.
Some of these hobby artists, aspiring to call themselves as full time artists
even take lessons with a “master” or someone of recognisable talent to be able
to learn and de-code some of this jargon. At times these are even expelled from
the system verbatim and can create an amusing evening and mind you I am a tea
taller; so it’s not the wine that makes me smile and feel light headed. I do
enjoy the food in these events as these often turn out to be well catered. And
events they surely are!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hence it would seem there is a well established need for IAE
in the world of art and art collectors and the art fakers too. It’s just that
even within the realms of IAE some have totally mastered it while others are
still trying to grope the very basics of it. As an artist, I do get curated for
shows and as these are group shows I respect the curator’s skill in tying the
entire exhibit and there after presenting each of the artists. I do self
present myself in various shows and as an artist who does regular proposals for
different bodies, I definitely understand the need to convey a concept. However
when I do, I prefer to keep it simple and yet dreamy, painting with words,
trying not to take away from what they will see, feel and ultimately take home
with themselves, mainly memories and various impressions. Hopefully the next
time you do come across an exalted piece of gallery literature you will give it
that prestige it deserves and read it. Remember, those are hours and hours of
work you will be shoving in your evening clutch. Personally I don’t waste money
printing it...it’s up there on the wall; if you have the time to read it you will
find it </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">:) </span></span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A blank slate, and a medium to fill it up. The slate, your
senses! The medium, a video-installation. The experience you ask? Well, the
sound, the visuals, the message, and most of all, the amalgamation of these. In
Peregrination, an on-going exhibition, I learnt even more than I set out to do,
when I put a video installation also named “Peregrination” out there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nah nah, I’m not going to rave and rant on the thought
process from where this installation has taken birth, the idea behind it or the
execution. In fact I’m here to discuss very basics, the idea of a video
installation. Once again I’m not going into the history of video
installation...for that I am adding a link below. Feel free to read it if you
want to know more. Wikipedia makes all us knowledgeable as does Google. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However a quick starter course in video installation is that
a short movie, is placed, in an enclosed dark space. It may or may not have an
audio along with it. The entire reason for presenting it is, “expression”. Like
any other form of installation art, there is no sales motive to it. This on its
own can perplex some. As does the transient nature of an” installation”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My own urge to do a video installation dates back a few years
ago. I have been waiting for the right exhibition and the right collection to
do so. Having collected plenty of images to morph and play around and create a
video and along with acquiring the right sounds to go along with it ....I was
all set. As we were on a budget, my bedroom television and DVD player and
speakers, became the main installation medium. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Two days prior to exhibition we started to install our work
in the gallery and found a lovely space for the Video Installation. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peregrination</i> the video installation was
all ready for viewing on the 5<sup>th</sup> of February 2015. Now all that was
left was to record reactions. For it is through reactions that we learn, and
also get fodder for our next exhibition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In short it was interesting. The first few who came for the
exhibition on the opening night, they actually stopped by and had their own
interesting interpretations and while I told them a lot about process and
timing of the creation, I did not disclose my interpretation. The crowd grew
through the evening and the video installation was often not noticed. When
asked later, I was amused by the reactions. “What, that T.V. was a part of the
exhibition?” said some, while some others remarked, “I thought it was an
instructional video!” Some others were thoroughly confused and thought it best
not to talk about it. A few did not “notice” the video. Quite amused by these
responses, I thought I must put my own experience out here. So here I am
earnestly trying to tell you what I learnt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is a certain educated audience one desires to have for
an art show. However, desire vs. reality, dream vs. the waking state, the
virtual, as opposed to the real. These paradoxes exist and one may not attain
that audience. Yet we find first time exhibition visitors are like a sponge
they may be able to soak most of the experiences without feeling inhibited. In
fact it feels nice to bring over this first time viewer, of art in a public
space. There is a keen sense of achievement there to have done something that
no one else had prior to this. Has a Columbus like effect. Or like our recently
oft used line, “to go where no man has gone before”.....just to digress makes u
wonder, the woman tends to go everywhere without needing an invitation is it?
This breaking of the hymen of the virginal art browser has a whole different
rush to it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now coming back to the topic of discussion, namely,
installation, a video one at that. So as an artist, it is also my role, to
educate the viewer. Not just through experience but through exposure. I also
learnt that the next time putting up in big bold letters, “VIDEO INSTALLATION”
or something to that effect may have them notice it as something other than an
instructional video. Or even create a separate dark room for viewing. That
again requires a generous budget or a sponsor. Hence the other thing one can do
is let the viewer come and take what he/she wants to. Some will leave learning
more about art, some more about themselves, some about humanity and yet others
richer having added contacts to their social list. Ultimately what I learnt
mostly is to smile. The conception and birthing has happened. The Child now is
going to lead its own life and you as the parent have given it the guidelines
but it will have to create its own identity and space. It’s time for me to now
find a sponsor for the next seed sowing, and then await the germination
process. This one, I suspect, will be a long pregnant pause. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAMtwQRjdqM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAMtwQRjdqM</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_installation</span></div>
Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-22916323631773479702014-12-10T19:30:00.003-08:002014-12-10T19:30:52.308-08:00Collections & Peregrinations<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Peregrination</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> is becoming a rather fun journey. I’m learning so much about myself
and more so about others, especially about the stuff people will collect. Human
nature is defined by the need to hoard and store. I’m not going to go into an
analysis on human nature and the need to collect. You can search for the same
online and there is enough said about it. Much of these go into the dark
psychology of human nature and yada yada yada.....(yah I really think Freud was
screwed up and has left behind so many more of his kind for us to deal with). I
am merely trying to share my excitement at knowing that my need to create a
work of art brought me searching for collectors and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what I thought would be a “weird collection
to have”, turns out to be quite a norm for many. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Interestingly enough this is the crux of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peregrinations</i>. Life differs for each one of us. How we view it and
chose to go through it, how we want to remember it, also, varies for each. By
now some of you have already opened the online dictionary to read the meaning
of Peregrination. What!!?!! Not yet!! Well in that case take a pause and do so.
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now that you have, let’s continue. Yes! So like I was saying,
collecting and often, the collections people have, make me marvel. There are
all those marble, stamps, butterfly, napkins, air sickness bags, match boxes,
bar coasters and the list goes on. Long back my husband used to collect. His
collection was bus tickets. For many of you who did not actually know Singapore
used to actually give you paper tickets for each commute of yours. So these
were his bachelor days when he left to study, his mom did a major cleaning of
his room. Yah in case you are wondering it’s a usual Asian thing to live with
your parents and here in Singapore you could put your name down for a HDB only
after your ROM was done. Singles at that point were not entitled to subsidised
living. Things have changed now and all for the better. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To come back to the story, my m-i-l, conducted a major surgery of her
sons room and found over 1000 bus tickets. Yes, I kid you not, 1000. That’s
almost over three years worth of bus rides at the least. I guess he thought
that under the bed, was the best place, to keep his collection tucked away.
What did she do, she did what any sane Mom would do. She threw them and made
the room all liveable again. After marriage he did try to collect them again,
only thing I have an issue with bits of paper; they always make it to the
dustbin. I know right! What a crazy habit. Someday must visit a shrink for the
same. :P Nowadays he collects bills in the wallet!<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“What does all this have to do with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peregrination</i>”, you ask. Like I said I was making a new art work
and I needed a travel related item. To my good fortune many promised, a few
delivered and some others left me with my mouth open wide. They had boxes of
this item stacked in their homes from years of travel. So I come back to my
learning. Journeys yes they have an effect on us. And we want to remind
ourselves that we had taken one, while forgetting that we are constantly living
on a tourist visa, stamped invisibly, on our breaths. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Why do we collect, what do we hope to achieve, will anyone ever see
it, who the dash knows! Yet we “do”, for “do”, we “must”. Now to go back to my
creative process, for “I must”! As that is what is my journey and my emblem.
Aha, your curios monkey mind, wants to know, what is the article, I was looking
for. Na, it wasn’t a puke bag from a flight or a sugar sachet, from cafes. To
know what it was check out Peregrinations, coming soon to your very own
Tigerland, Lioncity. Enuf clues arready. Got to go. Have a good holiday you all
and yah collect what you must, postcards, stamps, chocolates, crates, bottles,
wine corks, and the list goes on. </span></div>
Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-23247316944919588522014-11-29T07:53:00.000-08:002014-11-29T15:46:38.065-08:00The Face That Talks Back<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Recently while in India, we were
driving from Pondicherry back to Chennai, we spent an afternoon at Dakshin
Chitra. It was a nice cultural treat for us. The highlight however was catching
an exhibition on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The Tale of the Talking
Face”</i> the book Illustrated and narrated by the great K. G. Subramanyam. An
illustrated story, probing deep into a democracy gone all wrong and totally
webbed in satire, this book makes you sit up and wonder at the genius behind
those lines, whether etched or written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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K. G. Subramanyam was born in
Kerala in 1924, and in his youth he was actively involved in the Gandhian ideology
and movement. He was always interested in art, but during the freedom struggle
he was imprisoned and later banned from the govt colleges during the British Raj.
Art was his calling and he went and realised this dream in Vishwabharati jumping
straight from the Gandhian principles to the philosophy and understanding of
Rabindranath Tagore. Under the tutelage like artists & art stalwarts like
Nandalal Bose, Benod Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinkar Baij, he completed his art
education by 1948. In 1951 he moved onto teach at Baroda at the Faculty of Fine
Arts in M.S. University in Baroda. In between being an academic, in the arts he
did some learning in London and a stint at Rock Fellar, U.S. He came back to
Vishwabharati this time to teach in the year, in 1980 and he continued till,
1989 when he retired. At 89 and still an active contemporary artist he has had
a versatile career spanning in painting, murals, various craft traditions of
India, toy-making, pottery, illustration & design, terracotta and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sculpture. His paintings are noted for their
inherent wit, ironies, satire and critical social commentaries. </div>
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The best example of his satire
and wit, one can find in The “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tale of the
Talking Face”.</i> An entire democratic regime it takes on, with illustrations
and ruthless, truthful black humour, it cuts the illusion one had, of the
longest “democratic regime”. It analyzes the psychology of a young girl trying
to fit into her father’s big shoes. Caught between cruel shrewd politicians,
who push her into a role, she was not ready for. Compelled to be something she
was not cut out for she had to become ruthless to control them. What ensues is
the growth the illusion of “doing good” and the “green” washing of eyes that
chose to wear green glasses, which she “generously” distributes. Be it the
slicing of the touting the “third world syndrome” or the useless “five year
plans” or the eye wash of “festivals” these lines just force you to sit up and
read through the psyche of this young princess and her ego gone all wrong. </div>
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“You planned things in the first
year</div>
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You fanned your hopes in the next</div>
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You discussed them in the third</div>
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Then canned the whole thing in
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Its lines like these and many
more that present to us, the not so silent oppressed observer of an artist’s
mind, who is the ultimate recorder and also a decoder of his times. On a more
personal note I was hugely attracted to this book as a political observer and a
sceptic of the entire myth of democracy. Also the illustrations and the strong
use of black, white and red probably just caught my attention more so. (I have
hugely been stuck in a phase of painting and etching in these colour's for the
past two years). </div>
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The bold lines speak of the
courage of an uninhibited mind. While I have not had the opportunity to meet
this amazing “mind” I have got a glimpse through this book. Treat yourself to
this amazing book by clicking on the links below and getting yourself a copy. Meanwhile
I shall once again go back and remove the cloth that draped on the “talking
face”.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peregrination</i> has begun. It began the day we were born......yes
this journey, this route to the unknown, the destination ....still evolving. </div>
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We have started our work, yes all
our multi-layered, multi-technique, multi-textured, merging creative process
has begun. In a sense it began when we met years ago in a gallery in 2008. Maya
Bhalla, the artist I am proud to be collaborating with for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peregrination.</i> Since then we kept in touch. 2011 rolled in, we started
doing many a group shows together here in Singapore and overseas. A bonding
over process, technique and thoughts evolved. So apparently different
otherwise, we amazed ourselves, at how alike we could think. Yet we expressed
it so differently, in our own technical abilities and sensibilities. It made
perfect sense to collaborate. </div>
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is now called,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Peregrination</i>. </div>
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grown form, of a foetus to a grown individual standing an experiencing an
exhibition. A journey is that holiday we carry with a room full of memories,
pasted now in frames on the wall. A journey whether metaphorical or physical in
some way we carry with us always, physically or psychologically. A journey born
and raised and educated in Mumbai, we find ourselves in Singapore making a
space and carving a memory in the collective psyche of Singapore. We came with
impressions and memories as baggage and we travel the world today as Singapore
emblems. This morphing and blending and unpredictability of journeys has
brought us here and even placed us beside each other to think and create. To
symbolize this merging and coming together of our journeys we have a surprise
for you on the opening night of the exhibition. Intrigued? Stay that way.......
we will keep teasing you with information every now and again. </div>
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For some reading on Maya and her
thought process do check out her blog. </div>
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<a href="http://mayabhalla.blogspot.sg/">http://mayabhalla.blogspot.sg/</a></div>
Joyoteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05996962356978408308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2474953709046104038.post-81009918510210898722014-10-13T22:09:00.001-07:002014-10-14T05:36:07.348-07:00Understanding Spoken <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A creative process is
varied for varied people......as varied as their tools to express. A few
constants though in this process...The creator, the creation, the need to
express, the need to connect and hence whom to connect with, so also an audience for the same. Recently there has been an interest to curate shows online be it through Seeme
or other such portals. The response to these curated shows on pubic domains
creates a wider response and visibility and breaks from the traditional notion
of art, writing and the entire concept of curation becomes fused. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I first heard of “Spoken”
it sounded alien. On exploring it I felt involved and even curious to explore this
unique art of curation. Exactly what team Steve and Eugene had intended. So who
are they and why am I talking about them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here Steve speaks in
his own words, “</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-SG;">First, my background is full of experiences with
photographic art, video art, writing and television production. I came to
Singapore in 2002 to work as creative director for a company that was doing
pioneering work in 3D gamemaking and user-generated content. In other words, we
were doing something like Second Life and Youtube before they existed. Our focus
was on allowing children (or anyone, really) to create their own worlds. We
worked with the Ministry of Education and did tests in schools. The software
was called the Creative Development Kit (CDK) and things were going well. We
premiered the software publicly at an exhibition at the Singapore Science
Centre in October 2004. The morning of the premiere, however, the CEO and
driving force behind the CDK died of a heart attack. He'd been working on the
CDK for ten years. Things became "interesting" after that, to put a
positive spin on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-SG;">So, to get back to SPOKEN, I have a strong connection to virtual
reality. I met Eugene in 2006, when we were both involved in a hacker's 24 hour
game competition. I think Eugene's team won a prize for game artwork. Eugene and
I kept in touch. He kindly included an ebook version of my book entitled <i>I
Ate Tiong Bahru</i> in his Web Art show.(Which is worth a story by itself.)
Encouraged by that, I asked Eugene if we could collaborate, and the result is
SPOKEN. On top of all this, virtual reality is a brand new art form and SPOKEN
is a way to learn more about it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On speaking to Steve I
understood more about his motivation about Spoken, a curative experiment which
is not just any other online gallery. It is an interactive gallery which gets you
involved in the process of reaction and creating, engaging through linked thoughts and
expressions. The primary motivation behind SPOKEN is to create a stimulating
and informative gallery environment where it is possible (but not necessary) to
text or speak with others, especially strangers, about the artworks. The second
goal is to learn from all of this so as to plan and create a software or
platform which unifies and simplifies all of the positive aspects of
SPOKEN. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When asked
about the curatorial theme of Spoken, Steve’s witty response, I say "Helium
curated the show", that had me intrigued. He went on that </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-SG;">SPOKEN,
references to the fact that the curator have spoken to the artists involved.
Perhaps this seems like something obvious. However, he says he tried
unsuccessfully to get works from Robert Rauschenberg, William Wegman, Ansel
Adams and a few other artists that they had spoken to. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-SG;">“Of course I
have to mention Jacques Derrida and his observation that the voice is the only
true expressive medium. It really is a profound idea. I tried to make a list of
all of the artists I have spoken to. <i>Who was the first? Who was the most
influential? Could a conversation with an artist be a representation of my
life?</i> The result of all of this is that the show can be read as a
self-portrait of the curator. As Eugene unexpectedly became very busy, I
curated everything” thus explaining the helium element setting aside his ego. </span></div>
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gallery space, and the obvious question of it being a jibe on the current art scene,
Steve responded saying, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-SG;">Eugene hacked a game software to make a gallery.
The software, called Unity, is designed to make first person shooting games.
So, somehow we ended up with wine glasses that can shoot. So, yes it is fun to
pour wine on a Jeff Koons piece; much easier than Monty Cantsin's blood art
performance at the Whitney. </span></div>
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is Spoken headed from here and will the gallery expand further. Well Steve concludes
“putting as much energy into SPOKEN as we can, meaning publicizing it so that
we can get people inside. The gallery experience is so much more interesting
when you go in with someone. The idea of using a plug in to see art is still
new to people and we have to work to over come that.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-SG;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-SG;">“SPOKEN is actually in
the "space" of <a href="http://gallery.sg/" target="_blank">gallery.sg</a>,
which is exclusively Eugene's. And Eugene is both busy and full of surprises.
For the moment SPOKEN seems to be a "one off" project. I am, however,
hoping to build on this, As I see a great potential to create a new online art
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<span class="null"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.blacksteps.tv/spoken-gallery-finalized-text/" target="_blank">http://www.blacksteps.tv/spoken-gallery-finalized-text/</a></span></span></div>
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