This article is written by artist Mee Jey. This piece has been published by quarterly art magazine ALL THE ART in the winter edition 2019. here is the link to read. page 17-18 here is the text if you want to read. I have less time for self and my art works, I[…]
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[…]
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[…]
वो भी कुछ ऐसा ही सामान्य सा ही दिन था जब फेसबुक के हमारे इनबॉक्स में एक संदेश आया. संदेश था- ”अभी तुम्हारा पोस्ट देखा. मीनाक्षी का कपड़ों से आर्ट बनाने के बारे में. दिल्ली में हो तो गूंज आ जाओ. हमें बहुत खुशी होगी अगर तुम्हारे प्रोजेक्ट में कपड़ा दे पाए तो. क्या पता[…]
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 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[…]
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,[…]
It is almost six months now since we have shifted to US for a year or two depending on circumstances. In these months Mee has changed from an artist working mainly in her studio space to an artist studying, teaching, making new artworks and being a mother…all at once. On the other hand, I am[…]
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[…]
Marina Abramovic is an icon in the world of performance art. Her memoir ‘Walk through walls: A memoir’ has been published recently. Jey Sushil read the book and shares his view. Reading ‘Walk through walls’ by Marina Abramovic’ was exciting in the beginning and I was so eager to know about the phenomenal artist that[…]
As a student studying in an international school in Delhi, Mee faced tough times when her parents could not pay the school fees on time. Her father was adamant on providing us good English education inspite of his humble financial condition. Little did he know that it was equally tough for Mee to keep up[…]
It was a meeting which was rescheduled many times and a distance of around 40 kilometres took us more than a year to cover. Alka Kaushik, who came to know about Artologue through Facebook and Abhinav Singh invited us long back but since Alka is also a traveller, we couldn’t match a date to meet.[…]
Daily doodle is part of my life. I make these doodles not for practice but to empty my mind of thoughts. Thoughts which keeps me busy all day….. In 2016 I did around 60 doodle. Each one in a day..some got completed in minutes, some took hours. here are few of them. Third eye-[…]
Many people know us only as travelling couple but Meenakshi Jha (Meenakshi Jey) is also a visual artist who works in different mediums and with different materials. She started as a traditional Madhubani painter as a kid but she experimented a lot with that as well. slowly and steadily when she grew up and decided[…]
‘I’ in Togetherness: A series of 52 photos in 52 weeks to understand the Journey of a couple together and as Individuals. The I in Togetherness. They are known as Jey couple together and as Mee and Jey individually. Here are the photos and Text from week 25 to 32 Week 25: Clothes Jey Sushil:[…]
An artist’s life is as nourishing at creative level as tough at financial level. As a result of this for an artist the desperation works at two levels: first is the urge to create what’s coming from their spirit. This spirit can be read as their mind or/ and heart. Artists are individualistic, free spirited[…]