My Skill Story HISTORY/HERITAGE AND HINDSIGHTS are powerful teachers. The COVID helped me to connect the dots between my yesterdays and hopeful tomorrow’s.
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Where else to start, other than a daily ritual of drawing KOLAM in front of my home a ritual which is practiced in TAMIL NADU with strings of Rice powder pinched between the thumb and index finger, trying to offer artistic expressions with the help of Pulli (Dots) Tangles (Sikku ) Padi (Parallel) alpana(Bengali Style) Pookalam (Kerala Style ) and the current creative Rangoli (trending) This ground painting edged me to read about the history of KOLAM and decided to use the asthetics on Earthern Pots and walls. To further my knowledge subscribed to a You tube channel called “ just not Rangoli “” and practiced free style Kolam. The “DOT GRID “ EXERCISE or Kolam which means beauty is apparently a representation of infinity, the cycle of birth and Re-birth and enhances a perfect symmetry of curved lines built around dots which represents the point at which creation begins – a symbol of cosmos.
While using this pattern on Earthern ware way my mentor shared with me an order of matrix , a rule set which is nothing less than a “” Mathematical set “ For Eg: R1C11-R2C13-R3C2 where R is row C is column and apparently is considered as an ALPHABET. The No ½ denotes where the curve has to drawn. Rule No 2: is R2C1s: where s denotes a straight line, Similarly B3C2 r is drawn where r implies the curve must be drawn at the right side. The latest form of KOLAM/Rangoli gra mmar can be represented this way too apparently
2 of the many artefacts which get created by Chitra’s arty side.
G= (P,T,I,O,A,C,CS, ) Still learning the same and hope to share the concept with you all soon.. Till then connecting Heritage to DOT GRID… and our rich culture
