Thank you Katia Contreras for featuring in my work in the August issue of the Architectural Digest- Mexico. I am amazed at how far and wide this particular kettle has travelled. I got an email in June asking me to share information about two particular pieces of my work. This was it- “First of all […]
Category Archives: Kitsch
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Jul
Jul
I love working on commissions. It throws me out of my comfort zone. It is not something that I would instinctively do. To work with combining diverse elements/ a limited set of pre-defined colours and motifs is not easy. And as always every element on the kettle has meaning and is special to both the […]
15
Mar
Mar
‘Kitsched’ – Yet again!! …but this time it’s my point of view. Thank you Manjul Mishra for the write up in the March 10th issue of ‘The Sunday Standard‘. (You can click the image to open a PDF document) This was my two bit in response to – What do u think of kitsch as […]
14
Mar
Mar
‘Kitsch’ – Again!! This paper used an image of my kettle without permission and credit. And another used the same image and credited it to someone else!! (And that when I had sent the other paper enough pictures to begin with. That story is in the next post.) As to the tag – ‘Kitsch’? I […]
Kala Ghoda as a festival was not as awesome as I expected. Maybe it was that I had heard so much about the place, that nothing could have actually lived up to the image I had in my head. Having said that, it still was wonderful. I got to meet Neil Dantas and see his […]
This commission is a birthday gift for my dear friend Roopa Pai‘s father-in- law. She asked me to paint his old school lunch box with images that define him. I wish I had thought to take a before picture. Completely slipped my mind 🙁 He is a man of many talents and this box tries […]
I have been going through a major churn in my head these last few months. There is so much to do and not enough time. When there is time, I am torn in too many directions. In the hope of making sense of some of this mental chaos, I decided to try and assimilate the […]
Thank you Ambica Sharma for a delightful write – up. It was a pleasure to talk to you, even though the conversation was fractured over so many months!! Ambica and her daughter regularly feed the dogs in their building compound 🙂 And it is Ambica who is responsible for looking after the (feeding, bathing, grooming, […]
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Jul
Jul
This one (the kettle, not the movie), was so much fun to conceptualize and create. Over the years my Kamasutra kettle has got a lot of feedback. It is truly amazing to think that ‘publicly and officially’ we are not people who talk about sex openly. India and the Kamasutra go back a long way. […]
Of all these inspiring women online… Archana Srinivas is perhaps the one person who has had the most lasting impact on my life. It was sometime in 2008, that I saw her blog – ‘Rang Decor‘ for the first time. And I loved it. And it was seeing how effortless she made blogging ‘appear‘ that […]