The earth’s date with the sky
The earth’s date with the sky Years back while I was agitatedly engaged in an argument on art and life with my college mates, someone else somewhere else, wondered why he had nothing on his plate to eat, and yet another in some other corner of the world lost precious sleep over concept actualizations and […]
Whispers
Whispers The story behind the form- a gateway into the invisible sacred world of a Devarkadu, forcing a shift in perception. They will come today, artists living close to the sky, in tall buildings, taller than me, from Bangalore. They will look at my girth and will be filled with awe. They will love my […]
Who am I? Who should say?
Who am I? Who should say? Colours are the language of the soul. It’s hues and cries. And the eye the window to the soul. The leaf emits green and the sky emits blue. What colours do your eyes emit if not the true colour of your soul. Turquoise sparkles next to a shy purple. […]
Shedding the skin- Surekha Sharadha
Shedding the skin I’m crowned by the macramé veil made by a friend and a brilliant multidisciplinary visual interventionist, and down to earth artist Surekha Sharada @the Sumukha gallery in Bangalore. I could see her sitting in earnest, making a loop and passing the cord from left to right, pulling it tight. Then again right […]
The Creative Experience- A Confession
THE CREATIVE EXPERIENCE- A Confession Before going into the creative experience, I thought it wise to see why one takes to writing, painting, and other forms of expression. I see that when one is incapable of living life fully, especially the kind that bombards us in this century, one finds refuge in the arts. All […]
Culture and Art
Culture and Art The nature of an artistThere’s a body, a mind and an intellect combination that exists in all human beings. An artist might understand better if I say head- heart- hand- combo. Pancha koshas- annamaya, pranamaya, manomaya, vijnanamaya, anandamaya. Our journey is to move towards the higher centers of perception and knowledge and […]
The burden of Art History
The burden of Art History Isn’t it possible that an artist is discovering an experience for the first time in himself without the crutches of prior knowledge gained from books? Living the experience is different from book knowledge. And therefore prior historical images discovered or prevalent is of no consequence to the experiencer. Why label […]
The Feminine, Globalization and Recession-
The Feminine, Globalization and Recession We have a feminine and a masculine side to us. Aggression, self assertion, production, growth oriented, competition, these are all words you could use to describe the male attributes. Co-operation, integration, networking, nurturing, forgiving, intuitive are all words that could be used to describe the feminine aspect in us. Love […]
Dr. Sulochana Nalapat reads Nalapat Balamani Amma’s Poems
Dr. Sulochana Nalapat reads Nalapat Balamani Amma’s Poems 1-Two Children (1946) Two children, who have come to play at a riverbank, are bickering, oblivious to their beautiful surroundings. Then the poet (who is one of the children) urges her companion to stop fighting, and pay heed to the butterflies, the honey-filled flowers and green grass, […]
Kettuvallathinu nanni/ Obeisance to a boat
Kettuvallathinu nanni/ Obeisance to a boat https://youtu.be/7hc_64mIbSc?si=qW1Oa5T07YH5GBWv Stillnessandme aims at instilling a sense of wonder and oneness with nature and uses the gift of our senses- seeing, hearing and feeling, as doorways into an experience of stillness and creativity. As a continuation of the project activities started in Munnar with the High Range school in […]
