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[…]
Abstract: 365 Days Mee&Jey As travelling artist from 2013 to 2017 Mee & Jey have consciously subjected themselves to extended degrees of physical and psychological discomforts. These discomforts were lived as experiences with regards to riding motorbike for long hours, enduring acute weather, altered food and sleeping time as per the time of host family.[…]
Abstract: 365 Days Mee&Jey As travelling artist from 2013 to 2017 Mee & Jey have consciously subjected themselves to extended degrees of physical and psychological discomforts. These discomforts were lived as experiences with regards to riding motorbike for long hours, enduring acute weather, altered food and sleeping time as per the time of host family.[…]
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[…]
Mee and Jey had their first baby boy last year. Life has off course changed after that. With Mee’s final year of college, Jey looks after the baby during the day. This is his routine in a typical day. 8.00 am- I woke up with Mee’s complaining voice. ‘You didn’t sweep the floor last night.[…]
Mee-Jey just finished their four day show ‘I in Togetherness” in Experimental art gallery of India habitat centre in New Delhi. The show was attended by more than 700 people and many of them became part of the show. Detailed report will be updated soon but before that read a report by ARTI GUPTA As[…]
If you remember the 52 week long I in Togetherness Series then here is a good news of the series getting exhibited in New Delhi. Those who have no idea about the series then let me give an introduction. EVENT PAGE FOR THE SHOW- CLICK AND LET US KNOW THAT YOU ARE COMING In 2016,[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Shakespeare has said, What’s in a name but if you go by Indian way of names then there is a lot in a name. In the second week of the #threesomeisawesome series, We will be talking about How we zeroed in on the name of our new born and Why a name is important in[…]
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,[…]
Togetherness is pas’se, Threesome is awesome. Here stares the new series which extends the I in Togetherness. Those were his first foot prints. Official first foot prints of him on the earth. He was just born for 24 hours when these prints were taken. Apparently it was a process to be followed. What footprints he[…]
My official name is Sushil Kumar Jha but now mostly people know me as Jey Sushil. I have been asked a lot of times about Why I changed my surname on Social Media. Here is the answer. Let me confess something very seriously. The first time in my life I felt the importance of my[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
New year began with two invites for Artologue and we were able to paint at both the places in the very first month of the year. First invite was from Jaipur where Artologue was invited to lecture about/ share our journey with colours in past 4 years. The programme was on ‘Save the Girl Child’[…]