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 Recent Exhibitions
' Stoneware '
Recent ceramic work
Bangalore, October 2005
~ Gallery ~ Write-ups

' Windmills of your mind '
Auroville, Jan. 2005
~ Gallery ~ Write-up ~ Opening photos

' Harmony '
All India group art show
Bombay, Feb 2005
~ Gallery ~ Write-up ~ Opening photos

 

 




The Harmony Show
Write up by Adil

"…pictures hanging in a doorway, like the fragments of this song,
Half-remembered names and faces, but to who do they belong?..."

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You know you are on to something when you feel a rush just looking at
a slab of clay, glistening, freshly slipped, waiting to be tampered with….
A poke, a stroke, a scribble, a hope…. That's when fragmented memories
take over - lyrics, poems, philosophy, gibberish, …Bono, Cohen,
Sri Aurobindo, Wabi …as legible (or wispy) as a brushstroke,
- promising a thought process….maybe only hinting at it.
 
My ceramic journey began after nearly two decades as an architect.
A whimsical move to study clay-work in Pondicherry with Ray Meeker
and Deborah Smith at Golden Bridge Pottery, …and life changed tracks.
I work at Mandala Pottery in Auroville with Anamika and Chinmayi,
walking the tightrope between production ware and studio pottery, though
the call of urban Mumbay is forever present in the psyche.
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 Participation in group shows is a compulsion, so is attending (or conducting) workshops. The most recent high was my solo show in Auroville this January, titled "Windmills of your Mind", a ceramic and photographic journey edged on by the lyrics of that psychedelic song of the 60s. 

2) ADIL WRITER,
3 sets of wall panels;
(Also, “HEADS”, 2 Ceramic and mixed media installation by
Auroville artist JULIETTA K. )
3) At the inauguration evening,
DR. KARAN SINGH with
MS. TINA AMBANI
4) Curator of the show,
MR. VICKRAM SETHI.

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 My three sets of wall panels at the Harmony Show, I find very autobiographical…. But don't let that make you clear your bifocals and grapple with the scribbles…. Cause I am not labeling them "memories and lies" …. Not yet !!! ;-)
 
 
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