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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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: 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[…]
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.[…]
‘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[…]
It was some random Facebook post which got us connected. Jey doesn’t even remember the post but he vividly remembers that Sriram said something which Jey could relate easily. Jey came home and told Meenakshi, ‘Do you know there is always a connection with people. you know that Jharkhand feeling.’ Meenakshi smiled and said, ‘seems[…]
We are exploring ourselves everyday and want you to come with us on a journey. The journey called ‘I’ in Togetherness where MEE and JEY explores how they are growing as a couple. It’s a series of 52 photographs in 52 weeks exploring our lives and how we have impacted each other. Every Saturday a photo[…]
Hello! Am I talking to Meenakshi? Yes, speaking. This is Dr. Shweta and I am calling from South Asian University. we met in India Habitat Centre during your exhibition last year. Okay, You are Professor in SAU. Right? Yes and I am calling you regarding the artologue project. This was a phone call which Meenakshi[…]
किशोर चौधरी हिंदी किताबें पढ़ने वालों के लिए परिचित नाम है. किशोर रेगिस्तान के वासी हैं और उनकी कहानियों, पुस्तकों और फेसबुक पोस्टों में भी रेगिस्तान की रूमानियत झलकती है. उनसे कई बार मिलना तय हुआ लेकिन हम दोनों एक साथ कभी मिल नहीं सके. पिछले दिनों दिल्ली में मुलाक़ात हुई तो तो उन्होंने वादा[…]
It’s not easy travelling everyday and as you know one has to earn for a living. We are not travelling doesn’t mean we are not thinking about art and travel. We are exploring ourselves everyday and want you to come with us on a journey. The journey called ‘I’ in Togetherness where MEE and JEY explores[…]
“Here comes the hippies……”. That was the welcoming comment we received when we entered Frank’s home in Gunehar, a village on the mountains of Himachal Pradesh, somewhere near the Bir-Billing, that is probably the only place in India where you can paraglide. We were not there to paraglide but to participate in the ongoing conceptual[…]
You may remember the story of the Benares couple. If not read it here. In short : few months back we were invited by someone in Benares. They got to know about us through Facebook. We met them and got to know their heart-wrenching love story. We are not going to narrate it again here[…]
Since we have asked families and people to write us back explaining how do they remember artologue. we have been getting messages through whatsapp, email, FB and on phone. This painting is made by zara recently. we stayed in zara’s house and did a wall painting in 2014. Zara’s mother and our lovely Shirley aunty[…]