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Artist Mentor:
ARUNKUMAR HG
Session: The Earth Above our Feet
Students used the context of waste and overconsumption. They explored the philosophy of naturalists and looked at discarded objects as ideas for artworks.
Art by (student): KARTIK KUMRA
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
ARUNKUMAR HG
Session: The Earth Above our Feet
Students used the context of waste and overconsumption. They explored the philosophy of naturalists and looked at discarded objects as ideas for artworks.
Art by (student): PALLAVI RAWAL
“Plastic chai ka cup…I think everything ordinary has the ability to sparkle and dazzle but at what cost?”
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
ARUNKUMAR HG
Session: The Earth Above our Feet
Students used the context of waste and overconsumption. They explored the philosophy of naturalists and looked at discarded objects as ideas for artworks.
Art by (student): SANYA MALHOTRA
“Pyaar–longing for love. Caged and isolated from the warmth of childhood.”
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
ARUNKUMAR HG
Session: The Earth Above our Feet
Students used the context of waste and overconsumption. They explored the philosophy of naturalists and looked at discarded objects as ideas for artworks.
Art by (student): AANYA JAIN
“Where do I go?”
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
ARUNKUMAR HG
Session: The Earth Above our Feet
Students used the context of waste and overconsumption. They explored the philosophy of naturalists and looked at discarded objects as ideas for artworks.
Art by (student): RHEA KAPUR
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
ARUNKUMAR HG
Session: The Earth Above our Feet
Students used the context of waste and overconsumption. They explored the philosophy of naturalists and looked at discarded objects as ideas for artworks.
Art by (student): AISHA GHEI DEV
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
ARUNKUMAR HG
Session: The Earth Above our Feet
Students used the context of waste and overconsumption. They explored the philosophy of naturalists and looked at discarded objects as ideas for artworks.
Art by (student): RIAN ALVA
“I gave meaning to ordinary material. A smashed bottle feels like violence and blood and gore. Someone could get hurt with it.”
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
ARUNKUMAR HG
Session: The Earth Above our Feet
Students used the context of waste and overconsumption. They explored the philosophy of naturalists and looked at discarded objects as ideas for artworks.
Art by (student): AADHAR GUPTA
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
ASIM WAQIF
Session: The Destruction of Creation
Children were taught to cut and tie sarkhanda (local cane). After nine hours of intensive work, they were asked to destroy their creations. They explored notions of space, habitat, loss and freedom.
Art by (student): KARTIK KUMRA
“If you make something, you must have the heart to break it or it will decay!”
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
ASIM WAQIF
Session: The Destruction of Creation
Children were taught to cut and tie sarkhanda (local cane). After nine hours of intensive work, they were asked to destroy their creations. They explored notions of space, habitat, loss and freedom.
Art by (student): AANYA JAIN
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
ASIM WAQIF
Session: The Destruction of Creation
Children were taught to cut and tie sarkhanda (local cane). After nine hours of intensive work, they were asked to destroy their creations. They explored notions of space, habitat, loss and freedom.
Art by (students): NEHMAT MONGIA and RHEA KAPUR
“…Why would you be so possessive about your work? Destroying the work would make me create more and it surely did.”
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
ASIM WAQIF
Session: The Destruction of Creation
Children were taught to cut and tie sarkhanda (local cane). After nine hours of intensive work, they were asked to destroy their creations. They explored notions of space, habitat, loss and freedom.
Art by (students): RIAN NIRANJAN ALVA and SANYA MALHOTRA
“Asim taught me to let go of the physical form of my creation.“
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
ASIM WAQIF
Session: The Destruction of Creation
Children were taught to cut and tie sarkhanda (local cane). After nine hours of intensive work, they were asked to destroy their creations. They explored notions of space, habitat, loss and freedom.
Art by (student): VASUDHA SURYA
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Mixed Media
June 2017
Artist Mentor:
JAGANNATH PANDA
Session: Flights of Fantasy
Children were asked to manifest an imaginary world of flying without visas and travelling across space like superheroes or angels.
Art by (student): Kartik Kumra
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
JAGANNATH PANDA
Session: Flights of Fantasy
Children were asked to manifest an imaginary world of flying without visas and travelling across space like superheroes or angels.
Art by (student): Isha Gupta
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
JAGANNATH PANDA
Session: Flights of Fantasy
Children were asked to manifest an imaginary world of flying without visas and travelling across space like superheroes or angels.
Art by (student): Nehmat Mongia
“One bird often finds a path for others to follow: that bird thinks out-of-the-box.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
JAGANNATH PANDA
Session: Flights of Fantasy
Children were asked to manifest an imaginary world of flying without visas and travelling across space like superheroes or angels.
Art by (student): Natasha Lopez
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
JAGANNATH PANDA
Session: Flights of Fantasy
Children were asked to manifest an imaginary world of flying without visas and travelling across space like superheroes or angels.
Art by (student): Noor Dhingra
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
JAGANNATH PANDA
Session: Flights of Fantasy
Children were asked to manifest an imaginary world of flying without visas and travelling across space like superheroes or angels.
Art by (student): Rhea Kapur & Bhavna Gupta
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
JAGANNATH PANDA
Session: Flights of Fantasy
Children were asked to manifest an imaginary world of flying without visas and travelling across space like superheroes or angels.
Art by (student): Rian Niranjan Alva
“Like the interrogation rooms in crime shows…by adding mirror and glass…I created an infinite fall.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
JAGANNATH PANDA
Session: Flights of Fantasy
Children were asked to manifest an imaginary world of flying without visas and travelling across space like superheroes or angels.
Art by (student): Riya Kothari
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
JAGANNATH PANDA
Session: Flights of Fantasy
Children were asked to manifest an imaginary world of flying without visas and travelling across space like superheroes or angels.
Art by (student): Sanya Malhotra
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Mixed media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
JAGANNATH PANDA
Session: Flights of Fantasy
Children were asked to manifest an imaginary world of flying without visas and travelling across space like superheroes or angels.
Art by (student): Sanya Das Sharma
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
JUSTIN PONMANY
Session: Text, Erasure and Representation
Children were asked to reassess and analyse what we receive as news today from mainstream media.
Art by (student): Rheea Razdan
“I find patterns in the spaces of newspapers…I related my symbols to what is usually written in newspapers – jail and crimes.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
JUSTIN PONMANY
Session: Text, Erasure and Representation
Children were asked to reassess and analyse what we receive as news today from mainstream media.
Art by (student): Tanya Bali
“I cut out articles from the inside pages and pasted them on the front page – choosing to cover the ‘face’ of the newspaper…to convert the meaning…“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
PRAJAKTA POTNIS
Session: Keyholes
Children were asked to express what keyholes meant to them and stir narratives on their lives in the city through the porosity of walls.
Art by (student): Tanya Bali
“A keyhole can unveil many things. People usually hide or bury things underground – I placed the keyhole within the shadows of a bulb on the ceiling.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
PRAJAKTA POTNIS
Session: Keyholes
Children were asked to express what keyholes meant to them and stir narratives on their lives in the city through the porosity of walls.
Art by (student): Vikram Kishindanchani
“I made an island in the shape of a key…a place to keep secrets safe from everyone else…where secrets themselves feel safe.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
PRAJAKTA POTNIS
Session: Keyholes
Children were asked to express what keyholes meant to them and stir narratives on their lives in the city through the porosity of walls.
Art by (student): Shahnawaz Shaikh
“I don’t have access to electricity or basic amenities; therefore I put the keyhole on the fan so that only I can switch it on and enjoy it.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
PRAJAKTA POTNIS
Session: Keyholes
Children were asked to express what keyholes meant to them and stir narratives on their lives in the city through the porosity of walls.
Art by (student): Smiti Dani
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
PRAJAKTA POTNIS
Session: Keyholes
Children were asked to express what keyholes meant to them and stir narratives on their lives in the city through the porosity of walls.
Art by (student): Michael Singh
“I made a keyhole on a cylinder, to prevent leakages and hence avoid explosions. It spoke about a sense of security and safety.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
PRAJAKTA POTNIS
Session: Keyholes
Children were asked to express what keyholes meant to them and stir narratives on their lives in the city through the porosity of walls.
Art by (student): Rehaan Kaul
“I placed the keyhole on a window…When I peek through…I imagine a world of freedom – of soaring like a bird or freeing my mind from imprisoning thoughts.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
PRAJAKTA POTNIS
Session: Keyholes
Children were asked to express what keyholes meant to them and stir narratives on their lives in the city through the porosity of walls.
Art by (student): Rheea Razdan
“I incorporated the keyhole into the human eye and painted them on pipes which run everywhere…humans could use them to spy on people. .“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
REENA SAINI KALLAT
Session: Visa to Happiness
The world map is etched with conflict and the transient happiness. Children had to look at a new world with peace, both within an individual and collectively in society.
Art by (student): Trisha Salvi
“I found that happiness is pure and unfathomable. It doesn’t matter where it stems from…only that it doesn’t negatively affect anybody.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
REENA SAINI KALLAT
Session: Visa to Happiness
The world map is etched with conflict and the transient happiness. Children had to look at a new world with peace, both within an individual and collectively in society.
Art by (student): Vikram Kishindanchani
“Happiness is a friend. It comes out of nowhere and lights up your day. Everyone has a certain ‘key’ to happiness and you just need to find it.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
REENA SAINI KALLAT
Session: Visa to Happiness
The world map is etched with conflict and the transient happiness. Children had to look at a new world with peace, both within an individual and collectively in society.
Art by (student): Rehaan Kaul
“I realised that happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a way of travelling.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
REENA SAINI KALLAT
Session: Visa to Happiness
The world map is etched with conflict and the transient happiness. Children had to look at a new world with peace, both within an individual and collectively in society.
Art by (student): Rhea Mehta
“Keys symbolise discovering new sides to ourselves, opening new doors, going beyond our comfort zones…come together to form a world map of unity.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
REENA SAINI KALLAT
Session: Visa to Happiness
The world map is etched with conflict and the transient happiness. Children had to look at a new world with peace, both within an individual and collectively in society.
Art by (student): Shahnawaz Shaikh
“Material things like cars or jets can’t give us happiness; they can only give us pleasure. Happiness is present in small things…“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
REENA SAINI KALLAT
Session: Visa to Happiness
The world map is etched with conflict and the transient happiness. Children had to look at a new world with peace, both within an individual and collectively in society.
Art by (student): Rheea Razdan
“Happiness is actually a part of you that is locked within and little things release that happiness.“
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
REENA SAINI KALLAT
Session: Visa to Happiness
The world map is etched with conflict and the transient happiness. Children had to look at a new world with peace, both within an individual and collectively in society.
Art by (student): Simran Nerurkar
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
REENA SAINI KALLAT
Session: Visa to Happiness
The world map is etched with conflict and the transient happiness. Children had to look at a new world with peace, both within an individual and collectively in society.
Art by (student): Smiti Dani
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
REENA SAINI KALLAT
Session: Visa to Happiness
The world map is etched with conflict and the transient happiness. Children had to look at a new world with peace, both within an individual and collectively in society.
Art by (student): Sumiran Morje
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
REENA SAINI KALLAT
Session: Visa to Happiness
The world map is etched with conflict and the transient happiness. Children had to look at a new world with peace, both within an individual and collectively in society.
Art by (student): Tanya Bali
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
REENA SAINI KALLAT
Session: Visa to Happiness
The world map is etched with conflict and the transient happiness. Children had to look at a new world with peace, both within an individual and collectively in society.
Art: Collaborative effort of students
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Mixed Media
October 2017
Artist Mentor:
ROHINI DEVASHER
Session: Stars in the Sky and Stars in the Eyes
Children worked on a single canvas, supplementing each other’s work and challenging the concept of ownership. They were asked to discover beauty in things that are generally not considered beautiful.
Art: Collaborative effort of students
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October 2017