project:beyond sketch book..

As a part of my teaching I am doing a project called beyond sketchbook which involves students from different departments.I am sort of looking forward how it will turn out to be, as this involves large scale installations...

This project is aimed at translating concepts in to experiences involving senses. Sensorial Design, An interface to any experience, whether technological, physical, or conceptual, must have a message and a reason for communicating it and begin with the creation of meaning and the development of appropriate types of interactivity. Any product or art installation need not stop at being visually rich; it can interact with all the senses.

It is aimed at creating large interactive installations using Fabric and simple technology using sensory triggers to interact with the audience.

Inspiration enlightenment..whatever this phase is called.I can actually feel that this particular process will lead me in to creating new ideas..
I think I have always been a mixed media artist..i can not  get myself to use a pure medium...When was browsing through different blogs of surface designers, i knew that time has come for me to spend more time creating work for myself...when i love an artwork, i am sure it will be appreciated by others too...
an interesting link
http://ruthiepowers.blogspot.com/

Time to start jotting down my ideas..maintaining this blog actually helps me to clarify adn revisit my ideas...some images of inspiration....

Time to get start new project.....To start with I have decided to complete few stoles with natural dyes. I am sitting and tying them to get patterns...Next few days i am dedicating to work on mono-prints,screen prints, collages and start understanding my sewing...so many things to do.... and i wish i had a studio with a beautiful view..and mess i can ignore and work.....i am not going to bother with what I don't have... i have so many tasks to complete.
Yesterday my friend Swati who weaves amazing textiles and me went to visit a friend of ours....
Geetha is so passionate I am amazed and it is amusing to watch ehr...when I see her I see a person who can be so thrilled and content in just watching sun set or plant, flower or playful pups...Hmmmm.. it was so relaxing.. that we ended up spending the whole day... and we went to see orchids in her friend's house...Awesome..that was all I could think of..it was dusk and soon the rains wee about come down pouring ..reluctantly we left..I was so ashamed that i do not tend to my plants the way these women would.. they actually love them..i used to be like that... i am going to go back on my gardening..it is a promise i have made...I am going to retire in to a house with flowers, fruits and green....Hmmmm..long term plans.. to start i am going to get my garden in to shape.......i will post images today.....

inspiration

See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things. - Verse 13 Tao te Ching; Stephen Mitchell translation

found this on complexcloth web page.. check out this webpage
http://complexcloth.com
for interesting techniques...

after a long long time

So many things to do..at last break from school for few days..So ...so many things to do and complete..this new obsession with collages, calligraphy, silk painting and dyeing with natural colors actually making me loose sleep..
As I am unwell, i am finding it hard to choose between healing and working..It has been ages since i have gone for a walk....for a stroll...or just gaze in to the sky...take a picture..
nothing...at all.. have been extremely exhausted..i saw an interesting blog of a textile artist Jane Dunnewold http://dailyvisuals.blogspot.com
Beautiful images and visual language.. whcih has inspired me to take my camera out and go for a walk...will post images soon.....

patterns on a ceiling of a restaurant

bethlehem lillies:)