In USA, the protests have been going on for a while. As a person of color in United States, I could feel my blood gushing in my veins. However, I did not dare join the marches happening on the streets. I am an immigrant mother of a toddler, unemployed and with little resources at my[…]
We are still in the phase of transition and hope to settle down in this year of the Pandemic. We were suppose to travel and paint in the summer but as whole world has come to a stand still, we are also stuck. While stuck at home, we thought to write about various experience we[…]
In the art world, Ai Weiwei has achieved a cult status. One can see his work and get awed by it. He is such a star that Princeton University press published a book of his quotes as Weiwei-isms. I do not know any other artists who has this kind of ism named after him. Do[…]
Mee Jey is having a good time in terms of her artistic experience. In last 18 months of her Master of Fine Arts course, She has done around five public art/ community art projects. We never thought that we will be able to do community art in Saint Louis but then the art scene is[…]
अमरीका और मेक्सिको की सीमा पार कर के हज़ारों लोग अमरीका में बिना दस्तावेज के आ रहे हैं. ये ख़बरें पिछले छह सात महीने से लगातार पढ़ रहा था. टीवी पर लोगों की कतारें भी दिख रही थीं लेकिन जैसा कि होता है घर के ड्राइंग रूम में बैठे हुए ये ख़बरें…..ख़बरों से अधिक की[…]
It is an experience of a lifetime. It may sound cliche but for an Indian artist to go to the US-Mexico border and do an art project with the undocumented immigrants is something not done everyday. Even after coming back home, we are overwhelmed by the whole experience of working with people who have come[…]
Abstract: The art work is a triptych made of three wall fabric installation referring to three women from three different yugas from Indian/Hindu mythology. A very personal reflection of artist’s own identity in the growing understanding of her cultural past and political present. Title- Angry Mothers, Mixed media, 15x10x6 ft, 2019 More on the artwork- The[…]
Abstract of the work- Mee believes that artist treat the mundane material in a way that separates them from other people using it. It is Mee’s passion to give new meaning, form and hence new identity to objects that have already lived a life. This is one reason why she often works with old, discarded[…]
We were in Bangalore for a week and looking for opportunities to paint with communities and a friend put us in touch with a small art-school named Art-Beat in Bangalore. We had a small telephonic chat and decided to meet Namratha who runs the art-beat school where kids of different ages come and learn to[…]
We have been painting with friends, acquaintances,strangers, families, schools and various communities but we had never got a chance to paint in any urban society. The moment we think about an urban set up, we think about big flats and societies where no one knows who lives in the other flat. No one has any[…]
As new parents we have realized that Diapers are the biggest invention by humankind but I think pacifiers should take the top position. One can manage without diapers like how our parents have done it. I have myself raised my niece without diapers twenty years ago. The life becomes a bit difficult as you have[…]
We had no idea that Damodar Sarang was a government officer when he messaged me on the Facebook messenger inviting us to paint in a school in Datia, Madhya Pradesh. We have been planning to travel in Madhya Pradesh for many years and 2017 seemed to be apt for that. We had already covered Mumbai[…]
साल 2017 के कई ब्लॉग नहीं लिखे गए थे. लेकिन अब धीरे धीरे सारे ब्लॉग अपडेट कर रहे हैं. दिल्ली के द्वारका में एक बेसहारा, अनाथ बच्चों का केंद्र है जो सरकारी तो नहीं है लेकिन बहुत अच्छे से चलता है. सारे बच्चों का डाटा होता है और पुलिस के पास जो अनाथ बच्चे आते[…]
It has been a year now. When we look back at the experience of painting in two village schools of Punjab, Lot of things come into the mind. The year 2017 have been full of events in our life. all good ones and one of the reason we were not able to update the blogs[…]
Meenakshi and Jey began with a simple idea. How can we bring art and travel together? The founders of Artlogue talks to Narayana Menon K about their passion for the road and for art. Taking the idea of “painting the town red” literally, they went ahead and painted the town, although in vibrant colours of[…]
अमरीका आते समय जिस बात का दुख सबसे अधिक था उसमें एक बात यही थी कि आर्टोलॉग को कैसे आगे बढ़ाया जाएगा क्योंकि मीनाक्षी की पढ़ाई फिर से शुरु हो रही थी. हालांकि ये तय किया गया कि छुट्टियों में आर्टोलॉग का काम जारी रहेगा. इसी कारण पिछले साल हमने दतिया, फिरोज़पुर और अमरीका आने[…]
My first community art project in a new country and thats too with an autism centre was not easy but at the end everything ended perfectly as it happens in almost all the projects of artologue. Even before coming to United States, I had opted for community art project in my course in Saint Louis,[…]
I in Togetherness: An online performative series by #jeycouple for 52 weeks in which they grace their growth as individuals and as couples. Week 43: Theme: Ageing Jey Sushil: How to age is an integral part of conversation between Mee and Jey. Mee is very compassionate towards older people and Jey has no idea how[…]
I in Togetherness: journey of a couple in 52 weeks as couple and as individuals. Week 33 Theme: Gods Jey Sushil : Though Mee and Jey are not religious as such but they have their own favourite gods, their own likings for Gods. Jey is fond of Hanuman since his childhood, though he had a brush[…]
Despite Facebook being a non-serious medium, we find some serious writing on it at times. If some of these anarchic, spontaneous and unconnected posts are put together it becomes like a poem or a story. At certain points Jey sushi’s writings becomes something like this which needs to be put in one place and when[…]