Drawing people while they dance is a challenge at keeping the motion alive in a static image. While drawing the images of performance done during the Bhaat Nyotna ceremony from images the challenge of live drawing was reduced as now I had motion frozen and just had to copy that frozen memory of dance in my style of drawing. Motion in the body was most … Continue reading Performance/Ceremony at home
Observing the world of plants and trees is different from humans in many ways. Firstly, they move in very subtle ways unlike human beings always in motion and secondly, drawing them is less about capturing muscular composition but more about the relationships that are shared between two leaves or how leaves are wrapped around a branch. The trees I chose to draw captured me because … Continue reading Trying to be a tree
Various sketches were created to represent performances unique to a community, my cohabitants, trees, and plants, along with their profiles. One can easily create a close association with the drawings because they are all based on observations. Continue reading Sketching Impressions…
When I was prompted to think about performing arts unique to my community/region. I began by ruminating over three words- performing arts, my community and my region. My region is Delhi, the kind of Delhi where the middle classes live in gated colonies. The kind of Delhi that is all about travelling by metro. This is the region I identify the most with. The community … Continue reading Bhaat-Nyotna: Performance unique to Community
Drawing people I live with was an act of capturing their leisure time. I mostly drew them in relaxed poses while they were in their leisure mode. Because they were relaxed and could freely be my study model, seeing me draw them also prompted them to draw me. Both Sukveer and Nikhil picked up the pen and drew me when I was done drawing them. … Continue reading People I live with
The exercise was to observe and document our cohabitants in the midst of their daily activities. I know the routine of my cohabitants, yet this exercise was a challenge in terms of documenting that routine in a particular moment, that might not even last a minute. Continue reading Representing my cohabitants
So, the third visual and spatial representation task was about trees and plants which act as space-defining elements. Speaking with respect to my experience with the previous two representation task of performances unique to the community and that of study about cohabitants, this one was the most relaxing. Continue reading Representing trees, plants and primary space defining elements
I chose Dhunuchi dance and its association with the dhakis as the performance unique to the community. Besides my personal experience in witnessing the performances, another major factor is that these performances provide a direct glimpse of the Bengali culture. Continue reading Representing performances unique to community
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