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Mark making on Khadi

20/12/2020

For my next planned series of work, my sketches from my sketch book remain an inspiration.
I choose to change the ground and plan to use Khadi for my next series.
The coarse hand woven material / fabric is known in India for the role it played in India's Freedom Movement. Mahatma Gandhi took to weaving and wearing this fabric in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, about a hundred years ago.
The Swadeshi Movement urged Indians to boycott British machine spun textiles and take to wearing clothes made from hand spun cotton. Eventually it became a symbol for India's fight for Freedom from British Rule.
With this small anecdote I would like to take leave from you for my Christmas Break. What an eventful year this has been. For many more lows than highs.
Praying that 2021 brings us freedom from Corona.
Wishing everyone happiness, joy and abundance! Season's Greetings and a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021! Much light!

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The message of the medium

6/12/2020

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In my last post I mentioned something about the means of communication available to artists. The medium used for the art work could be one of those means.
I chose to work on jute / burlap for my present series and started to collect them from coffee places that were discarding them.
Jute / burlap is manufactured in countries like India and Bangladesh, from the jute plant. The fibres are natural, biodegradable and very sturdy. The woven jute fibre is then used to make bags to transport agricultural produce across the globe. The bags I collected had travelled thousand of kilometres, before they reached me in my atelier. By using them to paint on and allowing them to have a voice of their own, they not only had a new lease of life, but also a voice to tell their story.
It is also our own story, a story that many of us are part of.
For my next series of works, I plan to use Khadi. More about it, in my next post!
Much light!

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Aruna Samivelu

I am an artist. I live and work in Berlin.
I started to paint colour fields (very much inspired by Mark Rothko and other American Abstract Expressionists) and now have evolved into an admirer of the Bauhaus Movement. I am still a seeker: minimalist concrete art finds resonance in me, while the rich colours and traditional art forms of my home country that flow in me and breathe in me, also find expression in my work.
My work, I believe is a synthesis of all these influences and seeming contradictions. I am now knocking a dent into concrete art, non objectively so to speak! I work serially and can endlessly look for emerging patterns in my work.
This has been a wonderful journey, and as they say: the path is the destination.
In my blog posts, I am letting you have a peek over my shoulder, into my sketch books and small works, which will someday flow into my big canvases and other works; works that I will actually display or exhibit (or may be not).
My blog posts are more about my process and what motivates me to paint and create.

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