If nature starts manufacturing products what kind of goods she would line out.
She would see everything with green eyes?
When the sun runs away she would light up this lamp!
Provide you with this shopping cart.
It might be raining, it might be hot so; says she, take care!
All the spoilers should be scared away!
And she would not forget to nurture herself!
(images courtesy Go Green nursery pvt ltd’s booklet.)
This is a game. If you guess it right then you will be awarded with a stunningly beautiful prize from me.
exploision by John Crowley
Guess what this beautuful box is made of.
chair by Rodrigo Lima
Could you guess the material of the chair.
sitting by Bernie Estep
Guess right and take this beauty home.
bird-house by Kate Heckman
This bird-house is all yours if you guess correcrtly.
keeping tabs by Patsy Davila
Keep guessing & win this beautiful necklace
Rakhi-the thread of love and protection:
I do not know of any Indian festival without at least one element of design entwined into it. Rakhi is no exception. In fact it is so laden with crafts and designs that with changing fashion and market new avatars of rakhi keep coming.
The sister ties a rakhi on the right hand of brother and brother is thus bound with love to protect the sister. The history of rakhi is told here.
Today, rakhi is also market and convenience driven.
I live in a metro city. So the work and distance to my brother’s place had me tie rakhi to him on Sunday already. But my daughters tied rakhi to my husband (his sister stays too far away, on her behalf) today.
The Chinese are always so eager to penetrate any and every market. They are already into our rakhi festival. Indian markets are full of made in china rakhis.
Our film industry does not remain far behind. In kid’s rakhi there is always an element of advertisement. Hanuman rakhis, Jadu or Ganesha my friend rakhis (films released or to be released) become the most popular too.
Rakhis originally made with colorful threads have taken many embellishments with it. From beads, jari and zardosi to stone, diamonds and even swarovski crystals and gold, silver designs are woven with threads. In the small scale industry of rakhi making, now big gold and diamond brands also want to have a say.
Generally brothers sport rakhis but in few casts (Marwar-Rajasthan) woman too wear rakhis. Today we too are tempted to wear rakhis. Not only we sisters get promise of protection we get fabulous gifts from brothers too.
A few; Types of rakhis.
And if you are smitten by rakhi, you can make one on your own: a few DIY projects for how to make rakhis.
thali (dish) decoration with rakhi
(Rakhi images courtesy chennaibazaar, homeindia, indiagiftsportal).
There are certain movements and thoughts which have a timeless quality about these pieces of art. There is one common thread which appears like a recurring motif, and that is ‘bends in a road, paths crossed, corners turned ‘(Sandra Tarantino) which traps life beautifully.
Hemi Bawa was born in India in 1948. Sandra Tarantino was born in Canada in 1973. Hemi creates kiln-fired cast glass sculptures and sculptures of glass with metal, wood, or acrylic. While in Sandra Tarantino‘s works the physical base of shaped forms are constructed out of wood, which are then covered with pre-gessoed and painted canvas.
Both are continents apart, generations apart, mediums apart but still make a beautiful connection.
Hemi Bawa (glass+copper)
Sandra Tarantino(shaped canvas)
Hemi Bawa
Sandra Tarantino
Hemi Bawa Sandra Tarantino
I was about to do a post on Hemi Bawa then I saw Sandra Tarantino’s work in an eye for an interior‘s beautiful post ‘expression of art’. I instantly saw a cosmic relation.
Boundaries merge when thought process starts travelling!
It seems that all these pieces are about to speak to me. I sat there mesmerized after downloading a lot of images of her work. Designer, ceramist grande old dame Eva Zeisel’s work needs no introduction or great words. They just speak for themselves.
100 year old Eva Zeisel’s more than 75 years of extraordinary work is so alive that it just pushes us to sit up and think about our own life.
Her views on life “Everything is unexpectedly colorful. Life is a present. That is why one shouldn’t have scandals, one shouldn’t have ill humor, one shouldn’t be cranky–that is the moment that is life. One should respect it.“
“All my work is mother-and-child.”- Eva Zeisel.
Her functional objects bend, stretch, reach. They recall birds, leaves, pregnant bodies, belly buttons and fruit with a pared-down elegance.
“Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.”–Eva Zeisel
Her exuberant designs (above-belly button room dividers) show her playfulness.
Just a little curve that is perfect and never a wrong curve, that is what her designs is all about.
She is called an industrial (machine age modern) designer and her creations show ‘friendliness’, ‘family relations’.
I keep wondering about her spirits and I keep saluting this unstoppable lady’s works!
A few sites to see her work- (1) , (2) , (3) ,(4)
Images courtesy (& via) Evazeiselorangechicken, SignonSanDiego, Nambe, Mindspring
From India. With love.
These are carved wooden jharokhas (windows).
In past you could see these jharokhas in lot of Indian homes, in villages, in palaces, everywhere. Now they are mostly used inside the house as wooden frame or just as decor pieces.
