Adding colour to life ! Each year, in the remote village of Sujata in one of India’s poorest states Bihar, the Niranjana Public Welfare School organizes the Wall Art festival. Realizing how important it was to provide ongoing support, an art festival that would help convey the problems faced by villagers and children in Bihar, aside from popularizing art among the students. It was suggested to use the white walls of the school as a canvas. One of the artists who participated in the festival three years in row was Yusuke Asai. Inspired by traditional Indian wall paintings, Asai filled the entire walls and ceiling of a classroom with paintings made using mud. Working with children, he collected soils from various sites in the village and mixed them with water to make pigments. Asai also encouraged the children to make hand-print on the wall as a sign of their wish for future.After the festival was over, Asai enlisted the children once again, this time to help wash away the mud paintings, returning the material to the soil. Through this experience, Asai was teaching the children the meaning of life as a cycle in todays context, by painfully wiping away his own work. #Design Ahmedabad
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:35:52 +0000
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