tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23177363721121224392024-03-18T15:44:02.143+04:00Hues n ShadesIndian artist living in Dubai, her creative journey, inspirations, interviews, exhibitions, reviews, art initiatives and projects and anything artsy.Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.comBlogger439125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-91134062833181926592022-12-27T16:00:00.006+04:002022-12-28T19:08:05.002+04:00Winter Art Residency - A Milestone, First of its kind by the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi for State Award Winners<p><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Travel</span></b></p>
<span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On short notice, I grabbed all things essential
most of which were art related, pack my big bag as I intend to spend some days
after the residency with my parents and depart to the airport on the warm night
of 1 Oct. I was travelling alone, this time from Sharjah to Thiruvananthapuram.
It was unusually crowded at the Sharjah airport. Reaching Thiruvananthapuram in
the wee hours, I wait for a prepaid taxi. Kilimanoor is 40 minutes from the
airport I was told; travelling to this part for the first time. I was in
contact with Babuettan from the Akademi who advised me on how to reach there as
well as a few general matters to take care of. Babuettan and Shijith, both Kerala
Lalithakala Akademi (KLA) staff, were there to welcome and make us comfortable.
Abdulla and Biji Bhaskar, two other residents, had reached the night before. Shajith
and Smitha, the husband-wife duo, arrived after I reached.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxlWR0zGzkGaOZr9JlJdcZFlUlvQDySyyB1grzmG8E3cGvHczGVD0cZ1tREwa0KEzalP-siyNnxAEFJTXWFNxKt5eBr2e-Yccm_vloEO6JwRdXn7kOhYm4RWiIfS080si9yR9xs5Et1zKyPfzLZMygMmoRaUzBGbrO6bCRq-2UnA8oh3KRTatQypJC/s4500/Art%20Residency%20Invite.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Winter Art-Residency-Kilmanoor-Invite-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3442" data-original-width="4500" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxlWR0zGzkGaOZr9JlJdcZFlUlvQDySyyB1grzmG8E3cGvHczGVD0cZ1tREwa0KEzalP-siyNnxAEFJTXWFNxKt5eBr2e-Yccm_vloEO6JwRdXn7kOhYm4RWiIfS080si9yR9xs5Et1zKyPfzLZMygMmoRaUzBGbrO6bCRq-2UnA8oh3KRTatQypJC/w400-h306/Art%20Residency%20Invite.jpg" title="Winter Art-Residency-Kilimanoor-Invite-HuesnShades" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;">Inauguration</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The residency was inaugurated by the esteemed artist, N N
Rimzon, presided over by the Secretary of Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, N
Balamuralikrishnan in the presence of Tom J Vattakuzhy – Executive member, KLA,
T R Manoj – President, Kilimanoor Grama Panchayath, Kottara Mohan Kumar – Ward
member and Latha Kurian Rajeev – General Council Member, KLA. A humble ceremony
that took off with a workshop with children from the local school.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The highlight, for me, was the after-interaction
we had with N N Rimzon, Tom Vattakuzhy and Latha Kurian Rajeev. It was a
delight to hear their insights. N N Rimzon spoke at length about his travels,
materials and memories, about national and international art, leading to a
full-fledged conversation about European art and its imitation happening in Asia.
Regional and aboriginal art, African art, Pop art, Bengal and Madras school, folk
art and political art et al. continued in our conversations. Such engaging dialogues
feed onto my senses.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMoINpG8wUtD_261X5GZJ7SgjuoIwxm4B45978v0cgY8CD7iEQD5sest2oKgzUIcoZOO6yxw31ZC7jvgUDxORtk8BvTz4gt1uhlZiW4Aic9dJAlsWocrn3PbROfyZyfIlg7qFMV__czg3GghpYY7DIr8XN4d770E0kFhinZAoj3IPt6W-vIDC4h-72/s3249/Inaugural%20Function%20-%20Interaction.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Winter Art Residency Inaugural Function & Interaction-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3249" data-original-width="2700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMoINpG8wUtD_261X5GZJ7SgjuoIwxm4B45978v0cgY8CD7iEQD5sest2oKgzUIcoZOO6yxw31ZC7jvgUDxORtk8BvTz4gt1uhlZiW4Aic9dJAlsWocrn3PbROfyZyfIlg7qFMV__czg3GghpYY7DIr8XN4d770E0kFhinZAoj3IPt6W-vIDC4h-72/w333-h400/Inaugural%20Function%20-%20Interaction.jpg" title="Winter Art Residency Inaugural Function & Interaction-HuesnShades" width="333" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above: Esteemed artist N N Rimzon at the Inaugural address, Seated (L to R - Kottara Mohan Kumar, T R Manoj, N Balamuralikrishnan, Tom J Vattakuzhy, Latha Kurian Rajeev)<br />Below: an engaging conversation</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Residency Space <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The residency space is in the same compound of Raja Ravi
Varma Gallery in Kilimanoor next to the RRV Boys School. The gallery is quite
famous in the vicinity but one would be disappointed since it holds only prints
of Raja Ravi Varma. If you are keen to see some originals, you need to travel
to Sri Chithra Art Gallery, Thiruvananthapuram. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The high-ceiling, double-storied traditional space can house up
to six artists on a twin-sharing basis on the upper floor. It has a common living
space and a storeroom next to the bedrooms while kitchen, dining and caretaker’s
space is on the lower floor. A beautiful structure amid trees and a rubber
plantation behind which connects to the school ground. The premise also houses
a stage and an amphitheater, which functions as gallery seating. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Each room is cozily located with a pair of beds, side tables,
tables, chairs and cabinets all in lovely Rubco dark wood. The ceiling is quite
high and well-ventilated. The four-panelled window in the room opens into the
rubber plantation. The air was quite breezy this time of the year; it was
raining quite profusely some of the days!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The only drawback, for now, is the lack of studio space. The
Akademi mentioned that the facility would be opened soon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Another major highlight was the scrumptious food they served every
day with love. The Chief Chef, Aradhana with Aneesha, her assistant under the
supervision of Mohanettan, took extra care to make delicious and fresh food at
every mealtime. Meals matter! <o:p></o:p></span></p><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh31PbaXQIW5v3Q6xZeb8pJoqlhOugu1jhxJe5ggICF2RkE2AbSu3wIgzoEX3YTytxwTobCTQyLSPU-sp1-UgK3qgonEA3txRslF_GDAJWRSedoyEsxEUoTK2Wy6CoIgZI44-LF2v9VwUJLXQej_ucVnPRSfIMYL-co1CDuGPf2tJCl6-_qucTYD3Nh/s3611/Residency%20Space-Kilimanoor.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Winter Art Residency Space-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="3611" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh31PbaXQIW5v3Q6xZeb8pJoqlhOugu1jhxJe5ggICF2RkE2AbSu3wIgzoEX3YTytxwTobCTQyLSPU-sp1-UgK3qgonEA3txRslF_GDAJWRSedoyEsxEUoTK2Wy6CoIgZI44-LF2v9VwUJLXQej_ucVnPRSfIMYL-co1CDuGPf2tJCl6-_qucTYD3Nh/w400-h333/Residency%20Space-Kilimanoor.jpg" title="Winter Art Residency Space-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: KLA</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>The Residents<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">We were five artists from different domains. R B Shajith and Smitha Shajith, the
husband-wife duo as mentioned earlier, are artists from Kannur and Kollam
respectively. Biji Bhaskar is from Muvattuppuzha, Abdulla from Thrissur, the
youngest of our lot and yours truly from Palakkad/Dubai. Shajith – the
measured-thinker, Smitha – peals of laughter, Biji – master of witty punch
lines, Abdu – the over-thinker-laugh-instigator and I was probably the
listener-observer!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">We connected almost immediately. I had met Biji and Smitha
earlier but they were only acquaintances until the residency. We entered into
seamless conversations and discussions and our interactions were one of the cherished
moments! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Now, I need to dwell on my fellow artists-residents a little
longer. Each one of us is different in our practice, evidently. While I meander
in mine as I mull over, reflect, watch, observe, and move at a slow pace, I saw
another extreme at Shajit’s end. The rest of us looked at ‘his quarter’,
jaw-dropped! He is a speed-painter and created the most works. His technique
requires that pace for the abstraction he is adept at it. They are large-scale
works intensely inviting into their rural scenarios; an environment he is
familiar with, something that dwells around him or rather he dwells in it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Biji is quite a detailer, his works otherworldly and his
images have an earnest impact on the viewer. His colour palette is fascinating
too, adding to its whimsical element. He draws inspiration from his immediate environment
just like Shajit only to take on an unreal facet. He has a finesse that adds a
dramatic quality to his strokes that comes from experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">For Smitha Babu, theater is an integral part and that reflects
in her works. Her themes imbue the sense of stage and the actors, the
characters who inhabit the limelight and sometimes outside the limelight. Her
palette is interesting too particularly the neon pink that brings light onto
her canvas. Women abound in her world as well. One of the jolly lots, her laugh
is infectious!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Abdulla a.k.a Abdu, our sweet brother is a
non-conformer as his age demands – a Gen Z. Questions abound which resulted in
both of us having some of the most interesting conversations. I wish I had a
Dictaphone! That would have made amusingly candid episodes all by itself.
Abdu’s mode of work is in phases – an outburst of spurring creativity and a
space of linear-ticking thoughts. Questions like Who am I? Why am I? What is art?
Why is art? thrive. A genius with materials, his works reflect their nuances just
as his thoughts. Be it rust inking his paper, oil on his rusted metal plates or
his digital collages. The only glitch is the persistent doubt he carries.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As for me, the feminine psyche and its attributes grip me. I tend to address them as "<i>mindscapes</i>"; an introspection into the emotional and psychological states. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-align: left;">They</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-align: left;">
deal with feminine states of being in one with the environment, reflective and
surrealistic along with their internal and external struggles. Myths, dreams, visions, and people add to my</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> interest.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFh4FFHC8n7b2k5x8yerFLnCUilLtYAUWD2mnFX8oz0_Wc2V1uMXQoD36CpG5iLEtY-si68u-83_68UDLt7HBzWnVlx8H-0jPyOhidQ9Kz4qgBN0n4aKNetITUdK-BduCZicpuC2wsNl8mnslTGxJ7taDY96qbYA4Ezxj8bEFl-TS39myEW-kHR2W3/s3600/Art%20Residents.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Winter Art Residency-Residents-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3600" data-original-width="2485" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFh4FFHC8n7b2k5x8yerFLnCUilLtYAUWD2mnFX8oz0_Wc2V1uMXQoD36CpG5iLEtY-si68u-83_68UDLt7HBzWnVlx8H-0jPyOhidQ9Kz4qgBN0n4aKNetITUdK-BduCZicpuC2wsNl8mnslTGxJ7taDY96qbYA4Ezxj8bEFl-TS39myEW-kHR2W3/w276-h400/Art%20Residents.jpg" title="Winter Art Residency-Residents-HuesnShades" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above: R B Shajith, Smitha Shajith, Deepa Gopal, Biji Bhaskar, Abdulla P A<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Residency<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The residency
was for the duration of one month from 02 Oct to 02 Nov 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Speaking about the highlights of this residency,
we had complete liberty be it regarding the theme, the number of works or
anything else; we were on our own. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Personally speaking, this freedom gave us time for
introspection, reflection, research and experimentation with subjects. I tried
a couple of subject matters that had been on my mind for some time. Larger part
of my works were small studies.</span></p>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Remarkable supplements during the residency were
the morning/evening walks we took. Each night after dinner, we played an art
documentary, an Oscar-winning foreign language film, a Chaplin movie, and a
couple of times some no-brainer for comic relief. We all shared a collective
consciousness at this point and that was something that awed as well as humbled
and linked us.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii4ruvKp5XQV9ruma75V89uGxDxyqshPCylBcs2S62qDfGf3WKtUC3-zYauLzP8dJZ0h8MEpRKhJPQOuL9BKZI15ZaxUxUTl_Xj15JWnND97hGPYLweAB2Y0frP7dvptXOTMVew1-B49liN-hgfuJPBrHgPX7zxyFyAUPr4C-Wmef1Bl4sbQ3IEabS/s4500/Chithrasala.jpg"><img alt="Winter Art Residency-Chitrasala-Kilimanoor Palace-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3442" data-original-width="4500" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii4ruvKp5XQV9ruma75V89uGxDxyqshPCylBcs2S62qDfGf3WKtUC3-zYauLzP8dJZ0h8MEpRKhJPQOuL9BKZI15ZaxUxUTl_Xj15JWnND97hGPYLweAB2Y0frP7dvptXOTMVew1-B49liN-hgfuJPBrHgPX7zxyFyAUPr4C-Wmef1Bl4sbQ3IEabS/w400-h306/Chithrasala.jpg" title="Winter Art Residency-Chitrasala-Kilimanoor Palace-HuesnShades" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuW9Ge8PAy5kpLcFgaIhlY8Sj4TTq67PJS1z7z3o16GnoudSUHtH_B8F3mgqiHGZQaHs8Dn0QIzinsIyKVJJqZdM3TzfnCysrzhjCUnr8Fpbus4--nRCLnBLdLp98I-YlWgQA5bpZwfYIwI-xUUpgrfb6B5Bxah0Rkr8BwWr9HYOSBjbaZnoauVtqa/s4500/morning%20walks-Kilimanoor.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Winter Art Residency-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3442" data-original-width="4500" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuW9Ge8PAy5kpLcFgaIhlY8Sj4TTq67PJS1z7z3o16GnoudSUHtH_B8F3mgqiHGZQaHs8Dn0QIzinsIyKVJJqZdM3TzfnCysrzhjCUnr8Fpbus4--nRCLnBLdLp98I-YlWgQA5bpZwfYIwI-xUUpgrfb6B5Bxah0Rkr8BwWr9HYOSBjbaZnoauVtqa/w400-h306/morning%20walks-Kilimanoor.jpg" title="Winter Art Residency-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5wbXg3xweCg76zirYFzUsUj6KhYFYR4xt2hGl-dlIS5iLTCpUmmeT5bgSRhblL5gU7FOUlmncfkKm1Eg1jQUt73zl4Di7rq7eSvjG_tT-t8Q-4Y6DKuMs6Lg5vcQjL7PyWVzxGAX-V9aeGtwnGvh8MMhTHLsV1BDf35xM4b2nwqVKSVDYeXu8i1kb/s4500/Evening%20walks-Kilimanoor.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Winter Art Residency-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3442" data-original-width="4500" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5wbXg3xweCg76zirYFzUsUj6KhYFYR4xt2hGl-dlIS5iLTCpUmmeT5bgSRhblL5gU7FOUlmncfkKm1Eg1jQUt73zl4Di7rq7eSvjG_tT-t8Q-4Y6DKuMs6Lg5vcQjL7PyWVzxGAX-V9aeGtwnGvh8MMhTHLsV1BDf35xM4b2nwqVKSVDYeXu8i1kb/w400-h306/Evening%20walks-Kilimanoor.jpg" title="Winter Art Residency-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The silent Squad<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Shijith, the overseer from the Akademi, was with us for two
weeks ready to help us with whatever we needed. He used to sketch, watch movies
and documentaries with us. Babuettan was extremely helpful in every aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Mohanettan was one of the prominent persons in this
residency. His promptness, organization and care to detail were vivid. A father-figure,
he made sure that everything was done on time and that probably was one of the
reasons for the smooth functioning of matters. He also cooked for us in between
and his cuisine is delish! Aradhanachechi, the chief chef, I have to reinforce
is an excellent cook. Mahesh spoke sparsely but functioned efficiently with
materials and matters, always around to help. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The securities, Shareef and Kurupchettan, were people to
remember too. The fun, the frolic, and the warmth each one of them spread helped
us in our stay making it cozy and comfortable. They are the silent squad who
are vital for a project to work efficiently. The people around the residency
space too, have so much love, affection, warmth, and care to provide.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhFdxiVEpEVgyxH8E9ZhaeN2-B_r2Qz7of4EC9E_wIzuF-XN8a9jCkbdiJbe0czDeiqV2vGTm-8f0W_yLaVUUzBGPy7K6VHhswxCFJBMUXSiN2eXGIvTPS1iUE-6jhh3gomO0vh3XrbkXI3eQjx-01J2e9G_Fxs4aK3eRsxxklIzRAe9yYI0LaxbXY/s7001/Silent%20Squad.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Winter Art Residency-Team-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="5304" data-original-width="7001" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhFdxiVEpEVgyxH8E9ZhaeN2-B_r2Qz7of4EC9E_wIzuF-XN8a9jCkbdiJbe0czDeiqV2vGTm-8f0W_yLaVUUzBGPy7K6VHhswxCFJBMUXSiN2eXGIvTPS1iUE-6jhh3gomO0vh3XrbkXI3eQjx-01J2e9G_Fxs4aK3eRsxxklIzRAe9yYI0LaxbXY/w400-h303/Silent%20Squad.jpg" title="Winter Art Residency-Team-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L to R - Kurupchettan, Mohanettan, Abdulla P A, Deepa Gopal, Smitha Shajith, Biji Bhaskar, R B Shajith, Mahesh, Aneesha, Aradhana</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheSr8is2zwRv4HKfp7QTVo_0ggVc3JJpUmnH_uwZc6VjLUbQL4N4RrDHADn9K5F2FINQ4eZdm0J-zooaABpAxdq6pmth3Zo7quev0Nu8mzwcEGWhWcGp1GeVCjm3LYMICvTSiOpQaerqxwtaAHl6eOn4Dis5BYIQ3re6jrBLTAMrv52VF-RQphPJBa/s3600/Untitled-4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Winter Art Residency-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3600" data-original-width="2373" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheSr8is2zwRv4HKfp7QTVo_0ggVc3JJpUmnH_uwZc6VjLUbQL4N4RrDHADn9K5F2FINQ4eZdm0J-zooaABpAxdq6pmth3Zo7quev0Nu8mzwcEGWhWcGp1GeVCjm3LYMICvTSiOpQaerqxwtaAHl6eOn4Dis5BYIQ3re6jrBLTAMrv52VF-RQphPJBa/w264-h400/Untitled-4.jpg" title="Winter Art Residency-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above: L to R (foreground): N Balamuraliktishnan, Tom J Vattakuzhy, Latha Kurian Rajeev, N N Rimzon, Babumon<br />Below: Shijith, R B Shajith, Biji Bhaskar, Sri Biju Raja Varma, Abdulla, Deepa Gopal, Smitha Shajith</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Submission<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As promised, we all contributed a work of ours to the Kerala
Lalithakala Akademi at the end of our residency. Along with that work, we also
submitted most of our works as requested by the Akademi awaiting an exhibition
as mentioned. Hopefully, we will all be getting an opportunity to meet soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Gratitude<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9DI23Fnhfc8SX_2pcV9HTUNZBbLrMON3vIowMbh3eeR2ZRo_EebbKeeo98Ci6IZ6FlB4NQBXAc2rzUHjqMx1V6RJ6r3tZXVVKab_PEKc5rOtN1bT6Uym0Unt3Oo__8U9pFwS0k9S7Y6CWse_NkFt09ca79dfex2UBKqyd5BARBe0gX1tpMYHxstV/s1597/Chairman%20&%20Secretary,%20KLA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Chairman & Secretary-Winter Art Residency-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="1051" data-original-width="1597" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9DI23Fnhfc8SX_2pcV9HTUNZBbLrMON3vIowMbh3eeR2ZRo_EebbKeeo98Ci6IZ6FlB4NQBXAc2rzUHjqMx1V6RJ6r3tZXVVKab_PEKc5rOtN1bT6Uym0Unt3Oo__8U9pFwS0k9S7Y6CWse_NkFt09ca79dfex2UBKqyd5BARBe0gX1tpMYHxstV/w400-h264/Chairman%20&%20Secretary,%20KLA.jpg" title="Chairman & Secretary-Winter Art Residency-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>One of the pillars of this residency, obviously, is the
Chairman, Sri Murali Cheeroth, who made it happen with the Secretary, Sri
Balamuralikrishnan, and their entire team. To host such a residency is no
small accomplishment. To offer a dedicated space to artists from different
parts of Kerala, regional artists, to bring them together, spur interaction, and
bring forth works is something extremely essential to the creative climate of
any region. Such initiatives are necessary for not only the growth of the artists
but also for the creative community as a whole. It sends the message that art
and artists are fundamental and our contributions are valued in society. It is
the embrace that each artist awaits in his/her/their career. I wish and hope that
many more artists receive such opportunities to help achieve their path and
make way for their aspirations.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOwOeE0fbASYshv0OW423h2SoNNOF8gvzGXF3haSHSvF37-ff4rIR9DqpTlW5YSSKj8vyCtXTLBPG_lqt1oEJ-IzPVXN6WXHY87hkFacHTrOwrQhmGVzNnTKFqm459zYjMRuMONue6Cjzg6aYXDoJG1hI3z0lPFj4-hKt2UK4g3gGmdXwRm0X47tOh/s7001/With%20Eminent%20Artist%20Aji%20V%20N.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Eminent artist Aji V N at Winter Art Residency-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="5304" data-original-width="7001" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOwOeE0fbASYshv0OW423h2SoNNOF8gvzGXF3haSHSvF37-ff4rIR9DqpTlW5YSSKj8vyCtXTLBPG_lqt1oEJ-IzPVXN6WXHY87hkFacHTrOwrQhmGVzNnTKFqm459zYjMRuMONue6Cjzg6aYXDoJG1hI3z0lPFj4-hKt2UK4g3gGmdXwRm0X47tOh/w400-h303/With%20Eminent%20Artist%20Aji%20V%20N.jpg" title="Eminent artist Aji V N at Winter Art Residency-Kilimanoor-HuesnShades" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deepa Gopal, Aji V N, Smitha Shajith, Abdulla P A, Biji Bhaskar, R B Shajith</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Last but not the least; I would also like to thank the renowned
artist, Aji V N, who spent a day with us. Aji put forward a slide presentation
of all his major works explaining in detail his thoughts, travels, reads,
colour palette, framing, et al. It was illuminating and enriched us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Thank you Kerala Lalithakala Akademi!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwzV0VcMjdXwu3LvGJwoWPk8WYBPjovomz7kgpZf3tyttbWP-E8mZksQ6wxLPT98VJZIB67buiJeU07h9RE707ZXoBFoPJsBuIUDF4pfY4ojcGMBv6g3mPjF1gu9vzZsuwH0gqO_A9PZpzOJ80g87v0flj7lCCNZVYKSgskHlCSR74F7PzSKB_Fz6j/s3611/Collage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Winter Art Residency-Kilimanoor-Residency Moments-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="3611" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwzV0VcMjdXwu3LvGJwoWPk8WYBPjovomz7kgpZf3tyttbWP-E8mZksQ6wxLPT98VJZIB67buiJeU07h9RE707ZXoBFoPJsBuIUDF4pfY4ojcGMBv6g3mPjF1gu9vzZsuwH0gqO_A9PZpzOJ80g87v0flj7lCCNZVYKSgskHlCSR74F7PzSKB_Fz6j/w400-h333/Collage.jpg" title="Winter Art Residency-Kilimanoor-Residency Moments-HuesnShades" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p></span></span></div></span>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-31941101695435110952022-09-16T22:06:00.002+04:002022-09-19T21:51:56.212+04:00Khaleej Modern: Pioneers and Collectives in the Arabian Peninsula<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How did art evolve in the Arabian Peninsula? What was the journey like? Who were the architects of this evolving art world? What started the different movements and where has it reached? This exhibition is a treatise, a study of these queries.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recently I had the opportunity to attend the Preview of <i>Khaleej Modern: Pioneers and Collectives in the Arabian Peninsula</i>. Thanks to <i>Arte & Lusso</i>, the online magazine and Slava Noor, the Editor of the magazine. I must say that this is definitely a landmark exhibition with some rare and never before seen works of prominent artists from the West Asian region. It surveys the emergence of modern art in the Arabian Gulf featuring 57 artworks from the early and mid-20th century through 2007. The exhibition includes works from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, a region collectively known in Arabic as the “<i>Khaleej</i>.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Exhibition that opened on 6 September at the New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Art Gallery is definitely one of a kind in recent times that explores, examines and expands our horizons in relation to the visual arts of the Arabian Gulf. Dr. Aisha Stoby with Assistant curator, Tala Nassar from the NYUAD Art Gallery and the Chief Curator of NYUAD, Maya Allison have achieved formidable feet with this path-breaking exhibition. It is curated by Dr. Aisha Stoby, who helmed the inaugural Oman Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The exhibition is based on Dr.Aisha Stoby’s Ph.D. research that commenced in 2015 as she traces and maps the evolution as well as the history of art through prominent pioneers and collectives, their definitive movements in the region’s visual art history basically the emergence of the art scene in the Arabian Peninsula. It’s extremely interesting to note that this young researcher and curator has already spent some valuable years in the study and outlining the development of almost a century. She points out the influx of teachers travelling to the region and students studying abroad which brought in a novel perception and consideration. Some of the works are on view for the first time.</span></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjpCQPq58G5SkTngy7U5_nAVO2Fl3SOTWnpYDEd_7hCwow8pKP6gMtFEY6pqOruWV4s_NzZGq8hxn8FpxR99KlDgEALXMx8ZE4HVEKbXxbsyygHCtM4xTffLBnGQif8UGNF8fkwOtpN7lpXLS_YccJF251cDVV-9-kMm9VyVjSV0YrGAkH7I1w8tVT/s3000/IMG_5065.JPG" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjpCQPq58G5SkTngy7U5_nAVO2Fl3SOTWnpYDEd_7hCwow8pKP6gMtFEY6pqOruWV4s_NzZGq8hxn8FpxR99KlDgEALXMx8ZE4HVEKbXxbsyygHCtM4xTffLBnGQif8UGNF8fkwOtpN7lpXLS_YccJF251cDVV-9-kMm9VyVjSV0YrGAkH7I1w8tVT/w640-h330/IMG_5065.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Installation view of Khaleej Modern: Pioneers and Collectives in the Arabian Peninsula. “Early Pioneers” and “The Landscape” sections. Photo: John Varghese</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdUxPpfCUsW7GWXcLvjt3DIj4Ua0DUkrseYtARcWsmyIHhFOfamIcNood_3CdAlGBAVvfp_s2iZDB_36Bb_fI_moZTYu0xkMvDxvcOyJfDCeCCtcrZ71joFpG61dEqzW9rprKfRLpucBfKBXJKIyJ9f4lGnwdMoAUis-PSi_rhCFfxtugYW0HyAI1W/s4032/The%20Curators%20-%20Maya%20Allison,%20Dr.Aisha%20Stoby%20and%20Tala%20Nassar.jpg" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdUxPpfCUsW7GWXcLvjt3DIj4Ua0DUkrseYtARcWsmyIHhFOfamIcNood_3CdAlGBAVvfp_s2iZDB_36Bb_fI_moZTYu0xkMvDxvcOyJfDCeCCtcrZ71joFpG61dEqzW9rprKfRLpucBfKBXJKIyJ9f4lGnwdMoAUis-PSi_rhCFfxtugYW0HyAI1W/w300-h400/The%20Curators%20-%20Maya%20Allison,%20Dr.Aisha%20Stoby%20and%20Tala%20Nassar.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maya Allison- Chief Curator of NYUAD Art Gallery, Dr.Aisha Stoby and Tala Nassar - Asst.Curator</span></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br style="font-size: large;" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: inherit;">Khaleej Modern</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> documents the shift and journey of new art theories, diverse media and curatorial framework. The backdrop of the practice was changing socio-political tendencies and contexts, extreme industrial growth and modernization. The term “modern” however takes a different affinity from European Modernism in the context of the Arabian Gulf.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The layout of the exhibition is in four segments – Early Pioneers, Landscapes, Self-Representation and Portraiture, and The Conceptual Turn. Each section is crisp yet flows gradually into the next. It starts with the artists using traditional methods from the 1940s to 2007. It’s an ongoing conversation of tradition and modernity. It involves making art as well as contextualizing it. Dr. Stoby clarifies that ‘Pioneers’ are not only artists but also include founders, gallerists, mentors, teachers and collectives where these pioneers practiced.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Four Segments:</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Early Pioneers</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This section has one of the oldest paintings in the exhibition obviously. It is a portrait by Mojid Al Dosari, one of the pioneers from Kuwait who went on to study at Al Mubarakiya School. Artists in this era include Ibrahim Ismail whose work is the chosen poster image that is quite experimental and encapsulates tradition and modernity beautifully. Another work portrays an atelier where the artist presents himself painting a model and one can see the European influence and a cosmopolitan outlook present there. Mohammed Racim, one of the Turkish artists who held an exhibition in Jeddah was believed to be funded by a local Bank in the early 1950s. His illustrative works are again a mix of both tradition and modernity. Munira Al Kazi is another notable and outstanding artist of this period. They were founders and initiators of the day.</span></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvXsiCR_axwqcXLFuJ2QSvOjDIqFre6E3Drt4H8tXTn_C1WHSUqv4NUC5U-bIAN2C18dmKB1dvyGJG_Z6ebZFplpB7myCNHhJCZNMob12MoXwf1_ffIWksEtKS9F7KF-ParUwduxaB5Tq-AYYQEEqXaGewB7irDkkOF7CVKeVe4XL3gL3_7hvnx9mq/s1080/Building%20of%20Ships%20by%20Ibrahim%20Ismail.jpg" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvXsiCR_axwqcXLFuJ2QSvOjDIqFre6E3Drt4H8tXTn_C1WHSUqv4NUC5U-bIAN2C18dmKB1dvyGJG_Z6ebZFplpB7myCNHhJCZNMob12MoXwf1_ffIWksEtKS9F7KF-ParUwduxaB5Tq-AYYQEEqXaGewB7irDkkOF7CVKeVe4XL3gL3_7hvnx9mq/w400-h301/Building%20of%20Ships%20by%20Ibrahim%20Ismail.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Building of Ships by Ibrahim Ismail, 1966</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oil on canvas board, 30 x 40 cm, courtesy of Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah</span></div></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Landscapes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The focus in this segment is not just on the practice of architecture and landscape painting but on evolving and developing landscapes, particularly with the discovery of oil as a prominent resource. It is also about documentation, preservation, heritage and watching the shifts around them. The key artists are Ahmed Qassim Al Sunni, one of the first to receive an art scholarship from the Bahraini Government to study art in London. Along with artists like Nasser Al-Yousif and Abdul Karem Al Orrayed, Ahmed Sunni formed the “Manama Group” which met every Friday to paint the landscapes. Their style had a European influence but they focused on Bahraini landscapes. Ahmed Sunni was also the first to develop a school curriculum that became the basis of the art schools in Bahrain. Mohammed Saleem found an exhibition space where many of the artists from the exhibition had exhibited back in the day. He also coined the term “<i>Horizonism</i>” – taking colours and textures to emulate landscapes. Yousef Ahmad was responsible for the beginnings of the Mathaf Collection of modern art, among many other things. The other notable collective of the period is the “<i>Three Friends</i>” in which Yousef Ahmad was a prominent part. Many collectives and fine art societies blossomed strengthening the local art ecosystem during this period.</span></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisijlKX97npxdxBP1dtc_-ScZtozvlncfrMdrrVF6NtV0Ixx7td0h4wsTqLLhZTfKNAkIl_38lqnWiaD5q_KB3Y2LDY-lObRZQxVpm7J2yMbfNDvoKKxTznWrRS7jpfVKJfRccCCtSd0rMosOqASwrCo1g6nhiLuuKyM_pDklCqSQ4ExJBjg6lkAOu/s2233/Old%20Architecture%20of%20Manama%20by%20Ahmed%20Qassim%20Al%20Sunni.jpg" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisijlKX97npxdxBP1dtc_-ScZtozvlncfrMdrrVF6NtV0Ixx7td0h4wsTqLLhZTfKNAkIl_38lqnWiaD5q_KB3Y2LDY-lObRZQxVpm7J2yMbfNDvoKKxTznWrRS7jpfVKJfRccCCtSd0rMosOqASwrCo1g6nhiLuuKyM_pDklCqSQ4ExJBjg6lkAOu/w316-h400/Old%20Architecture%20of%20Manama%20by%20Ahmed%20Qassim%20Al%20Sunni.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Old Architecture of Manama by Ahmed Qassim Al Sunni, 1960,</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oil and jute on wood, courtesy of Bahrain National Museum</span></div></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Self-Representation and Portraiture</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This segment is an ongoing conversation between concepts of the individual and the society, and tradition and modernity. Socio-political impact on the artistic output is strikingly visible. Along with the presence of many themes, it looks at different artistic mediums and how they were processed. A time that reflected both private and public spaces. Along with Mounirah Mosly, Safeya Binzagr pioneered in painting and exhibition. They had their one of a kind first public art exhibition in Saudi Arabia in 1968. Safeya Binzagr was the first woman in Saudi Arabia to have had a solo exhibition. Later she opened her own museum, again a first, <i>Darat Safeya Binzagr</i>. Her works dwell on traditions, intimate space and portraiture almost as an act of preservation. Mosly’s environment captured a constant flux of development and modernization. She also incorporated a range of materials in her diverse practice that was novel at the time. Thuraya Al Baqsami studied art in Russia and when she moved back, found that figurative painting had disappeared from the Kuwaiti art scenario. She was part of the <i>GCC Art Friends’ Group </i>that went against this wave. Her focus was on the lives and roles of Kuwaiti women. The Gulf War had a profound impact on the artist. Her work “<i>Return from the village</i>” is one that drew me in and I would have prolonged my stay in that village and would have loved to explore the place.</span></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrAqmxO4rpyg1IJbnVTQxjGSRcfB8RwvrBtevH16s5iwXJx_VuNHH1Gki7BmB-wcizcVSuGQNP0_HRLIGX8khAB9woqHAwBmBvVZesoTtFkLOKriqoubS_H3P4yaF3t14Fhotm4MWVfghb0Obs1jOxhadQNkLB-_8HgOYRg0Z0T5uYvprqJfdh1soY/s1701/Al%20Zaboun%20by%20Safeya%20Binzagr.jpg" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrAqmxO4rpyg1IJbnVTQxjGSRcfB8RwvrBtevH16s5iwXJx_VuNHH1Gki7BmB-wcizcVSuGQNP0_HRLIGX8khAB9woqHAwBmBvVZesoTtFkLOKriqoubS_H3P4yaF3t14Fhotm4MWVfghb0Obs1jOxhadQNkLB-_8HgOYRg0Z0T5uYvprqJfdh1soY/w311-h400/Al%20Zaboun%20by%20Safeya%20Binzagr.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Al Zaboun by Safeya Binzagr, 1969</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Acrylic and print on canvas, private collection</span></div></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Conceptual Turn</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The final segment is not just a progression from one to another but it coincides with other dates, something that ran parallel; a period of introduction of new and different materials globally.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This section highlights the collectives “<i>The Five</i>” (modern and contemporary Emirati artists) and “<i>The Circle</i>” (a group of artists from Oman). Hassan Sharif is a major figure and there are references to his notorious One Day Exhibition held at his Mreijah Atelier in Sharjah. He is also the co-founder of Emirates Fine Arts Society. “<i>Silsilat al Ramad</i>”, the artists’ book by the short-lived <i>Aqwas</i> (“Arches” named after Sharif’s Arch-shaped works) <i>Group</i> that includes Hassan Sharif, Nujoom Alghanem, Khalid Albudoor and Yousef Khalil is on display. “<i>My Mother’s Letters</i>” by Abdullah Al Saadi is a work I was drawn to for its emotional element. This is a series of objects that his mother who couldn’t write left at his studio door to let him know that she had visited while he was away. The artist was a part of the group known as “<i>The Five</i>.” “<i>The Circle</i>” from Oman was founded by Hassan Meer whose installation “<i>Under the Water</i>” can be seen here. The collective focused on how to interpret spirituality using forms that one normally wouldn’t expect. Mohammed Kazem, Mousa Omar, Anwar Sonya, Budoor Al Riyami are other notable artists in this section. The artists were not only responsible for introducing and championing new artistic practices in the local communities but were also founding avenues through which this art could be studied, viewed and understood.</span></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a abdullah="" al="" by="" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghB1VY7BGTmwUr_tVs_knKzvmuFfXpR8w5oqSHW3rciqEkYLQpa02Vo0ob5t28RpHU6esNLj6OXMKLLiyQ9REQobtqf1oMdLbsARL45AeosHKgZ3NcZz8oaZZw_lM-7qHGmCiwFEoA05uB1vuUxsHk8ZKL4kpqakm_ZbHRrhApC1EGRn6y4iAPPFYg/s3190/My%20Mother" letters="" s="" saadi.jpg="" style="font-family: inherit;"><img abdullah="" al="" border="0" by="" letters="" s="" saadi.jpg="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghB1VY7BGTmwUr_tVs_knKzvmuFfXpR8w5oqSHW3rciqEkYLQpa02Vo0ob5t28RpHU6esNLj6OXMKLLiyQ9REQobtqf1oMdLbsARL45AeosHKgZ3NcZz8oaZZw_lM-7qHGmCiwFEoA05uB1vuUxsHk8ZKL4kpqakm_ZbHRrhApC1EGRn6y4iAPPFYg/w379-h400/My%20Mother" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My Mother's Letters by Abdullah Al Saadi, 1998-2013</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">mixed media, courtesy of the artist</span></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Khaleej Modern</i> is a learning curve and a long overdue path-breaking exhibition for it could be a starting point to learn and have a deeper understanding of the times bygone in the art ecosystem of the Arabian Peninsula. Dr. Stoby anticipates that the exhibition will be a point to take forward the conversation in understanding the art scene and help in the wider reach and awareness of the times, the context and the changes – a reassessment and study of sorts. The people, the places, the process and even the patterns are a road map, a study of the past is essential to travel and evolve in the future.</span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpvE_XbZhEeO0YlZJTrxkDf-81__ED5bYRO8z9WrOr6FSEP35SGoFIONBpwevmjrNYAcrGLIOzcv2CaeGiUG4AAg6DGWoZC5uo8_7mT_RByOsBsfcfoSgiOvXjryYEh4EkO8BXczWzWi2i1NBYXa2LPnBFVC_R2IaakPIYZhMvcBWgOA7pz7JHgkUg/s3200/IMG_5062.JPG" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpvE_XbZhEeO0YlZJTrxkDf-81__ED5bYRO8z9WrOr6FSEP35SGoFIONBpwevmjrNYAcrGLIOzcv2CaeGiUG4AAg6DGWoZC5uo8_7mT_RByOsBsfcfoSgiOvXjryYEh4EkO8BXczWzWi2i1NBYXa2LPnBFVC_R2IaakPIYZhMvcBWgOA7pz7JHgkUg/w640-h384/IMG_5062.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Installation view of Khaleej Modern: Pioneers and Collectives in the Arabian Peninsula.“The Conceptual Turn” section. Photo: John Varghese</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Exhibition Dates: Sep 6 to Dec 11, 2022</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Venue: NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Time: 12 to 8 pm (Mondays closed)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.nyuad-artgallery.org/en_US/our-exhibitions/main-gallery/khaleej-modern/" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.nyuad-artgallery.org/en_US/our-exhibitions/main-gallery/khaleej-modern/</a></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">photo: yours truly unless specified otherwise</span></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com0Saadiyat Marina District - Al Saadiyat Island - Saadiyat Marina District - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates24.5238948 54.43455588.5998383195473753 36.8564308 40.447951280452628 72.0126808tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-75892511287315285552022-05-08T19:24:00.013+04:002022-07-13T19:55:19.800+04:00Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Annual State Awards and Exhibition 2021 and The Covid Series <p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Evening</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">On a warm and humid evening, like any other evening, I was in
Kochi after a span of two and half years breathing a familiar air in one of my
favourite places in Kochi where I had exhibited several times before. This time
it was different in ways I couldn’t imagine as I was receiving my first ever
State Award – Honourable Mention Award – in a grand ceremony from Sri Saji
Cherian, Honourable Minister of Cultural Affairs, Kerala State and many other dignitaries,
creatives, friends and family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">After Covid lockdown and everything going under as far as the
public and social events was concerned, this was a revival of art. The
celebration of art was two-fold as this was the 50<sup>th</sup> year of the
State Award and Exhibition and 60 years since the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi’s
inception.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA_We-atoFjIXFzqYQDmB9yUV966kK1eK22JkSeG5bDcLHOqqCpgnP-V-vFdpUw42DtQkXuHpOilAddIY-jCgxJN-mxIFsa86Ax-vAucdNMXGbbcHk75s-O-MtN1Mw1XiO4KLYzfNEWP2zCFZoik1NEjq685Dyi4MPJ5Pi9sG-_3geB9c1oAcn9i_E/s3493/Award%20Winning%20Work%20-%20We're%20Islands-Self%20Portraits-IGNITE%20series-Deepa%20Gopal-Watercolour-15x15cm%20each-2020.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Award Winning Work - We're Islands-Self Portraits-IGNITE series-Deepa Gopal-Watercolour-15x15cm each-2020-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="1404" data-original-width="3493" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA_We-atoFjIXFzqYQDmB9yUV966kK1eK22JkSeG5bDcLHOqqCpgnP-V-vFdpUw42DtQkXuHpOilAddIY-jCgxJN-mxIFsa86Ax-vAucdNMXGbbcHk75s-O-MtN1Mw1XiO4KLYzfNEWP2zCFZoik1NEjq685Dyi4MPJ5Pi9sG-_3geB9c1oAcn9i_E/w640-h258/Award%20Winning%20Work%20-%20We're%20Islands-Self%20Portraits-IGNITE%20series-Deepa%20Gopal-Watercolour-15x15cm%20each-2020.jpg" title="Award Winning Work - We're Islands-Self Portraits-IGNITE series-Deepa Gopal-Watercolour-15x15cm each-2020-HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"We're Islands-Self Portraits" - IGNITE series-<br />Deepa Gopal-Watercolour-15x15cm each-2020</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGA_bcvQDJq3Uzye7mXw_V0WTPBGXfZSgAG1WhQjhT8CNqe8ATezrFdb_7p3bGtfkrNftpJx2BayOursgoUclOdTJ9C5N9Rp9k3ph_lcfdKGcCxynbjrmbxXAthk3twFVY_FRGa3zB0NixWO1OjSgWsLCeVqjnXJZge9rpNrwBadBKD9RYCsv4frb/s5472/Inaugural%20address%20by%20Sri%20Saji%20Cherian,%20Minister%20of%20Cultural%20Affairs,%20Kerala%20State.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Sri Saji Cherian, Honourable Minister of Cultural Affairs, Kerala State -HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGA_bcvQDJq3Uzye7mXw_V0WTPBGXfZSgAG1WhQjhT8CNqe8ATezrFdb_7p3bGtfkrNftpJx2BayOursgoUclOdTJ9C5N9Rp9k3ph_lcfdKGcCxynbjrmbxXAthk3twFVY_FRGa3zB0NixWO1OjSgWsLCeVqjnXJZge9rpNrwBadBKD9RYCsv4frb/w640-h426/Inaugural%20address%20by%20Sri%20Saji%20Cherian,%20Minister%20of%20Cultural%20Affairs,%20Kerala%20State.jpg" title="Sri Saji Cherian, Honourable Minister of Cultural Affairs, Kerala State -HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sri Saji Cherian, Honourable Minister of Cultural Affairs, Kerala State </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmdRsQrhgMN2oHkwu25IL0JGlrBWXWEhyaq26_1FvuWNlcMTVnJrN2tGNLnE1DLdBfhL9EChKE_N3taAMAiSvABvHMwLyxih6NTn5wrcgO2-mZCmKhn8DFmBCduMeK8PiJ8Dz1bI_Ix-NK9WW1lHuO_D7VjfsZQcfgj_Hws26w147b1XqLztHJSEcT/s5472/Welcome%20address%20by%20Sri%20Murali%20Cheeroth,%20Chairman,%20Kerala%20Lalithakala%20Akademi.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Welcome address by Sri Murali Cheeroth, Chairman, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmdRsQrhgMN2oHkwu25IL0JGlrBWXWEhyaq26_1FvuWNlcMTVnJrN2tGNLnE1DLdBfhL9EChKE_N3taAMAiSvABvHMwLyxih6NTn5wrcgO2-mZCmKhn8DFmBCduMeK8PiJ8Dz1bI_Ix-NK9WW1lHuO_D7VjfsZQcfgj_Hws26w147b1XqLztHJSEcT/w640-h426/Welcome%20address%20by%20Sri%20Murali%20Cheeroth,%20Chairman,%20Kerala%20Lalithakala%20Akademi.jpg" title="Welcome address by Sri Murali Cheeroth, Chairman, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi-HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welcome address by Sri Murali Cheeroth, Chairman, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6wAP-4CmGYai-vak4gUauk-CK_NX8h599n3rXsFSAUDTppr_McQ7n7WEYhoShRZgRnGCJf-aCKTZyRRv8jF-PgsneCi13b4LPT0lhx8kht-ZH0BzBzliZgOHxj6ZQBxyOnNVO8glDh3eAbz04GcQvhFCCsR6EunOoahtGssBXe4JhWpSHcyotTKW5/s5472/Lighting%20the%20lamp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Lighting the lamp-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6wAP-4CmGYai-vak4gUauk-CK_NX8h599n3rXsFSAUDTppr_McQ7n7WEYhoShRZgRnGCJf-aCKTZyRRv8jF-PgsneCi13b4LPT0lhx8kht-ZH0BzBzliZgOHxj6ZQBxyOnNVO8glDh3eAbz04GcQvhFCCsR6EunOoahtGssBXe4JhWpSHcyotTKW5/w640-h426/Lighting%20the%20lamp.jpg" title="Lighting the lamp-HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When I was beckoned to Light the lamp</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Stage<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The ceremony was moved to a bigger space, unlike the previous
years, in the presence of a larger crowd and a grander arrangement. The center
stage of the Award ceremony was impressive in its scale with the white typography
of this year’s title covering most of the backdrop on a grey palette. Minimal décor
with some clustered flowers in the foreground that soothed the eye. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Chairman, Sri Murali Cheeroth (Read interview <a href="https://deepazworld.blogspot.com/2019/02/body-as-mediating-element-murali.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #0004ff;">Part 1 </span></b></a>and <a href="https://deepazworld.blogspot.com/2019/02/body-as-mediating-element-murali_18.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #001eff;">Part 2</span></b></a>), with a strong vision had
put his best foot forward with the Secretary, Sri Balamuralikrishnan, and their
steadfast team. The changes were impressive and gladly visible in each and
every detail as well from the way the staff was dressed to the display of all the
artworks that were in sync with the white and mounted frames. The noticeable
one is the entry of New media into the esteemed gallery. The memento had
undergone a makeover as well. We were presented with the title-printed tote
bags, the stunning catalogue and a plant (yes, a plant. I think it’s a
beautiful gesture – a symbol of growth, prosperity and going green and
sustainable).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Having a different vantage point from the stage was unique and
sharing it with esteemed guests par excellence was a cherished and memorable
experience.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMzU7AJopQF0TUJiJcA1tRYLkaVicWEP5co9kDTVc13UOUWaDXdIeHSVra2G_ZirgeM-uyhlTnXFjsBXD6doq_2hM3brL95DSAkb6EAbNAI4sNkIsln390vzkMPIr81-Kd9zrHrBr_srDnu71m3nE_pHJG5DXZzLyZ5TK6mYQp1YbrTyZ6qndbsM5Q/s5472/Receiving%20the%20Award.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Receiving the Honourable Mention Award from Sri Saji Cherian, Honourable Minister of Cultural Affairs, Kerala State -HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="5472" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMzU7AJopQF0TUJiJcA1tRYLkaVicWEP5co9kDTVc13UOUWaDXdIeHSVra2G_ZirgeM-uyhlTnXFjsBXD6doq_2hM3brL95DSAkb6EAbNAI4sNkIsln390vzkMPIr81-Kd9zrHrBr_srDnu71m3nE_pHJG5DXZzLyZ5TK6mYQp1YbrTyZ6qndbsM5Q/w640-h414/Receiving%20the%20Award.jpg" title="Receiving the Honourable Mention Award from Sri Saji Cherian, Honourable Minister of Cultural Affairs, Kerala State -HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Receiving the Honourable Mention Award from Sri Saji Cherian, Honourable Minister of Cultural Affairs, Kerala State </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The music by violinist Sabaressh Prabhakar and folksy fusion
by the music band ReSatrippin’ was an incredible treat and delight.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYlXy2H9qMYTUKoTVBI6DwC1V0oJcvcZotTpt0Ag7gfzt-l9hVV_Ky52fNp7JEOldwOBXg5c4QFd2-kqP-iZUNMrEMvgJ761qCm0WExoLyCvmbE9CyrVeRMrzvoSrxSosYLs2TIFg2chud-WCJmd8k1IEknHZlQMMPEti3rSeiu0TitVOi2XTg0Dd7/s2166/Music%20at%20the%20State%20Awards%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Violinist Sabareesh Prabhakar and ReSaTrippin' singer, Resmi Satheesh-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="1618" data-original-width="2166" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYlXy2H9qMYTUKoTVBI6DwC1V0oJcvcZotTpt0Ag7gfzt-l9hVV_Ky52fNp7JEOldwOBXg5c4QFd2-kqP-iZUNMrEMvgJ761qCm0WExoLyCvmbE9CyrVeRMrzvoSrxSosYLs2TIFg2chud-WCJmd8k1IEknHZlQMMPEti3rSeiu0TitVOi2XTg0Dd7/w640-h478/Music%20at%20the%20State%20Awards%20copy.jpg" title="Violinist Sabareesh Prabhakar and ReSaTrippin' singer, Resmi Satheesh-HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Violinist Sabareesh Prabhakar and ReSaTrippin' singer, Resmi Satheesh</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Jury<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The jury was led by the internationally recognized artist
Prabhavathi Meppayil and included renowned artists like Manisha Parekh, Atul Bhalla,
Babu Eshwar Prasad and Aziz T M. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Exhibits<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I found some amazing works in this year’s exhibition as well,
obviously. All the Award-winning works were a treat to the senses and so were
many others exhibited there. I can only imagine the Jury’s plight! It
definitely was an inspiration galore for me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Each work is a journey – of not only the artist but also of
the viewer and they correlate, coerce and collide at instances forming a bond
and that is what each artist looks forward to. A path that perhaps leads on to
other paths or at times a cul de sac (a dead end) and even the story remains. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The new media was a whole new category rightly included to suit the current times in the exhibition but unfortunately, I couldn't see that part of the exhibition and I had to travel back the next day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">My Work<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I received the Honourable Mention Award for “<i>We’re Islands –
Self Portraits</i>” (a series of 10 paintings), my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mindscapes</i>. </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">They present distinct, dreamlike,
introspective-emotional states or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mindscapes</i>
-</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> a term that I coined
to call my paintings that portray the feminine psyche from a strong female
presence and perspective. It deals with feminine states of being in one with
the environment, contemplative and surrealistic along with their internal and
external struggles. </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">My works feature dreams, visions,
myths, memories, people, their tales, emotions and unbridled feelings to form different
layers. I suffer from fibromyalgia and the pain speaks in some layers.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">In a society that is consumed by fake realities, we are
prone to alienation and a feeling of otherness even among our own. Women being
‘emotional nomads’ we navigate adapting ourselves through various circumstances
just to survive. My protagonists create parallel realms - a refuge and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">value</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;"> detachment
and solitude amid ‘an environment.’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">"<i>We're Islands - Self Portraits</i>" was part of the <a href="https://deepazworld.blogspot.com/2020/12/were-islands-series-of-watercolours.html" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">IGNITE-from within the confines-</span></i></b></a> that I curated during the pandemic in 2020. If you had been following my works, you may remember that.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhazHwV9AJVEZLqPDzATSFmgwq93PbZllBJiiaxBDHvOpTW7T2doYvxbx2k2PZf3hT8-0CiwoitwugD0hlf9cdQhKjODZC_zSrEWBh88xoaI6qevlHSEP8ZV0SKIFHCuFiFXRo-NBNbuNg2O7t6AT76xtSxN9sKiTAa6wNrN9B1kPN2OtpTGAvRNxAz/s3964/With%20my%20Award%20Winning%20Work.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt=""We're Islands - Self Portraits" my Award-winning work-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3964" data-original-width="2967" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhazHwV9AJVEZLqPDzATSFmgwq93PbZllBJiiaxBDHvOpTW7T2doYvxbx2k2PZf3hT8-0CiwoitwugD0hlf9cdQhKjODZC_zSrEWBh88xoaI6qevlHSEP8ZV0SKIFHCuFiFXRo-NBNbuNg2O7t6AT76xtSxN9sKiTAa6wNrN9B1kPN2OtpTGAvRNxAz/w480-h640/With%20my%20Award%20Winning%20Work.jpg" title=""We're Islands - Self Portraits" my Award-winning work-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With "<i>We're Islands - Self Portraits</i>"<br />my Award-winning work</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryvZOLvkrOL0YnrvJ8ouqLVylM-Yfteq16RFDaOknbR8ZxUwGMHApsad_gnDVWlsfaQ4mMHeuoy-YtGcUDGcNs6JjNnA_FMyWvu0tQkPI7uFOyS2OrCP_OjTUedQyZIEOAu8dBWV8tVv3UI3vXWONKW1bEU5IwDtrL7tNEn4fvfVtzZj2nPq3N2o2/s1440/With%20amma,%20acha%20and%20Dili.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="With my parents - Visalakshi and Gopalakrishnan, and my brother, Dileep Gopal-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryvZOLvkrOL0YnrvJ8ouqLVylM-Yfteq16RFDaOknbR8ZxUwGMHApsad_gnDVWlsfaQ4mMHeuoy-YtGcUDGcNs6JjNnA_FMyWvu0tQkPI7uFOyS2OrCP_OjTUedQyZIEOAu8dBWV8tVv3UI3vXWONKW1bEU5IwDtrL7tNEn4fvfVtzZj2nPq3N2o2/w640-h480/With%20amma,%20acha%20and%20Dili.JPG" title="With my parents - Visalakshi and Gopalakrishnan, and my brother, Dileep Gopal-HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With my parents - Visalakshi and Gopalakrishnan, and my brother, Dileep Gopal<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN5YBdWuF9LQ7zsh141acT5VJpLihFhnriYtgj45latUfY_GjkAYafUOHGE4V94jGCIsI0wFVNj3CwdVxDKA1ohGYagaZtm0ZMUCttykfWmg_5Y44fElXVvvXokor9eCxfTnR4uN-nQ42mnVdaCsZ7GpqlIVYzEmffyYz3DRC47ML0HLnkOtaWIz0F/s4032/With%20SriMuraliCheeroth.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Sri Murali Cheeroth, Chairman, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN5YBdWuF9LQ7zsh141acT5VJpLihFhnriYtgj45latUfY_GjkAYafUOHGE4V94jGCIsI0wFVNj3CwdVxDKA1ohGYagaZtm0ZMUCttykfWmg_5Y44fElXVvvXokor9eCxfTnR4uN-nQ42mnVdaCsZ7GpqlIVYzEmffyYz3DRC47ML0HLnkOtaWIz0F/w640-h480/With%20SriMuraliCheeroth.jpg" title="Sri Murali Cheeroth, Chairman, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi-HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sri Murali Cheeroth, Chairman, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdrVmI6EtuLfyvvlR55zu91bnWXD6zesKdxwgDLCygrH9WIa8qtjX4Z1fjuqggdNY5DH0TjByG9t22-bXYZlGtg1eg5UjvWFtsw6eK4uN9rwStTQULUr9h1by3Dj8b3wwiJMlIRc03V4BhYvlydpRIFcz5qoHvwrLevdWw9rXyPaEZP7iHF2BV1Fj-/s1440/With%20Sri%20Balamuralikrishnan.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="With my parents and Sri Balamuralikrishnan, Secretary, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1440" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdrVmI6EtuLfyvvlR55zu91bnWXD6zesKdxwgDLCygrH9WIa8qtjX4Z1fjuqggdNY5DH0TjByG9t22-bXYZlGtg1eg5UjvWFtsw6eK4uN9rwStTQULUr9h1by3Dj8b3wwiJMlIRc03V4BhYvlydpRIFcz5qoHvwrLevdWw9rXyPaEZP7iHF2BV1Fj-/w640-h390/With%20Sri%20Balamuralikrishnan.JPG" title="With my parents and Sri Balamuralikrishnan, Secretary, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi-HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With my parents and Sri Balamuralikrishnan, Secretary, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Stirring Interest<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The works that stayed with me are Jayesh Barsati’s <i>Soliloquy
in Covid Time</i>, watercolours of the husband and wife duo – Shajith and Smitha
Babu, Untitled pen and ink works of Sudayadas, Rahul Balakrishnan’s <i>Daily Life
Circus</i> – all State Award Winners, Biji Bhaskar’s <i>Love Lives in the Village </i>(V Sankaramenon
Endowment Gold Medal), Akhil Mohan’s <i>Rice Series 27</i>, Abdulla P A’s <i>Rusting
Memories</i> (both Honourable Mention), K S Anandapadmanabhan’s sculpture (Special
Mention) and all the Award and Special mention works. The other works that
piqued my interest were that of Sara Hussain, Tito Stanley, Blesson Bernard, G
Unnikrishnan, Helna Merin Joseph, Anu Rajan, Sabitha Kadannappally, Aswathi
Prakas, Anupama Alias, Sruthi S Kumar, Bijimol, Babitha Rajiv, Varghese
Kalathil, Ameen Khalil, Rejani, Asokan Adipuredath, Meethu Mohan, Rajendran
Pullur, Sarath K S, Sarundas Cherukattil, Shasna Majeed, Shilpa T K, P G
Sreenivasan, Sreevalsan and Vishnu C S. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I did hear and see some reels on Instagram of the interesting new media works. I have to mention the increased participation of the students and the energy they exhibit is incredible. Kudos to the new and the young!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There are many more you can find once you visit Durbar Hall Art
Gallery. Take your time and do visit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-vOysKekq8Y15XhL16TRT7-VLNhMejZ2OMbkghUWraanAtIAZ0R3kZqGGYeg2HwPK_yhJoRB46aZYGjcOGLVT8Jlo6XdRpnQTka0eqMVKVGBVsk370N4PKk1AYCcQccoi6sqhp8UbSkym0UgvC-IzKH5epugbCp-aoE4Q_DCsxNjiR5pjwgHyVqn/s5470/Award%20Winners%20and%20Dignitaries.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Award winners and Dignitaries-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="3529" data-original-width="5470" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-vOysKekq8Y15XhL16TRT7-VLNhMejZ2OMbkghUWraanAtIAZ0R3kZqGGYeg2HwPK_yhJoRB46aZYGjcOGLVT8Jlo6XdRpnQTka0eqMVKVGBVsk370N4PKk1AYCcQccoi6sqhp8UbSkym0UgvC-IzKH5epugbCp-aoE4Q_DCsxNjiR5pjwgHyVqn/w640-h412/Award%20Winners%20and%20Dignitaries.jpg" title="Award winners and Dignitaries-HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Award winners and Dignitaries</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Travel<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I had been to Kochi just for the ceremony held on 25 April.
The stay was arranged by the Akademi in a nearby hotel and delicious food was
served behind the gallery itself in a makeshift serving area. I was back in
Dubai on 26<sup>th</sup> by afternoon. So the whole process of travelling,
staying, attending the ceremony, walking through the exhibition, meeting family
and friends, getting to know new people and rushing back to Dubai all seemed
like a dream. After reaching back, I did wonder whether it really did take
place or was it something I conjured up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The State Exhibition is on until 12 May 2022 at Durbar Hall Art Gallery, Kochi. Please do visit
and leave your feedback through comments. Click a selfie with the artworks and
post it on Instagram tagging the artist and the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com10X79M+GFG, Durbar Hall Rd, Opp TDM Hall, Ernakulam South, Ernakulam, Kerala 682011, India9.9688135999999989 76.283689999999993-18.341420236178848 41.127439999999993 38.279047436178843 111.43993999999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-76256857520207626752022-03-31T23:57:00.003+04:002022-07-13T19:57:55.848+04:00"When the wild beckons" - Art of Endangered species and Wildlife by Animalier Rachel Gray<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Rachel Gray is a British Artist who specializes in wildlife portraiture. Rachel has always been drawn to animals and art from a very young age. Her admiration and love of animals have led her to wildlife conservation, and she is committed to using her work to raise awareness of endangered species from around the globe. With this goal in mind, Rachel has worked with charities such as the WWF and has collaborated with the British High Commission, COP26 “Together for Our Planet” (2021), Namibian High Commission and Expo 2020 Dubai.</span></div><p><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;">I live for colour and animals, so
combining them both is just brilliant!"</span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Wildlife calls Rachel Gray to her
bosom from where births her magnificent portraits of the wild. She also paints
pets. Her animals are lifelike and look ready to spring to life from her
screen. Her digital rendition that mimics oil painting is full of life and
Painter is a tool that gives her that provenance to capture the interesting,
intriguing facets of animals and their environment. Rachel captures her own
photographs and uses them as a reference. She has travelled extensively from
the dunes of Namibia to the rainforests of Malaysia, she has slept under the
stars and riverbeds. She feels that one must capture these animals in their own
habitats to observe them at their best – to capture their true personality,
soaking up the colours, details, behaviours and surroundings. Raising awareness
about endangered species has always been one of the hallmarks of Rachel’s
works.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96CFgfW08aQeCsfdiEuz-GL7nW-FVfSk-09VA0Eq6lXB1Ub2FSsTB-xyq_zVGy3pXpW00NCiytALfyZeGKghAG49PicJo2yzw_kguOO8movKWN1mRKqoyOhHYXC8FwLZwUTE3vTlh2c5gmCf99gSyJ4ZE1atOy5Eyo4-z3bIzM4cNgOjaWApX4L70/s4252/RachelGray%20Intro-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Rachel Gray-Wildlife Art-Endangered Species-Malaysia-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2563" data-original-width="4252" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96CFgfW08aQeCsfdiEuz-GL7nW-FVfSk-09VA0Eq6lXB1Ub2FSsTB-xyq_zVGy3pXpW00NCiytALfyZeGKghAG49PicJo2yzw_kguOO8movKWN1mRKqoyOhHYXC8FwLZwUTE3vTlh2c5gmCf99gSyJ4ZE1atOy5Eyo4-z3bIzM4cNgOjaWApX4L70/w640-h386/RachelGray%20Intro-1.jpg" title="Rachel Gray-Wildlife Art-Endangered Species-Malaysia-HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rachel Gray</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Recently I had an appointment
with Rachel at the Malaysian Pavillion where she was displaying her works during the sustainability week, particularly for this blog post. It was a short but inspiring
conversation. With the backdrop of the wooden panels of the pavilion and the green
around it was a perfect setting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><i>“I’m always thinking about art be it mine or someone else's.”</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilIsDqWebpQ1jnkTmeeiDsTK7MdnvnPL3tzvuBWE44e-qdcgrp9xNG-bjegbCn4YlISVgcyA8LTZPD1LcIT2w6VvRmelbetVkOt-f9YqA_KBJuTsOACRLWNDwMuGsfkglWlKSW0LfkCkwlb1pWfMX_MCLohAruMlN3bQEzw9DR2FUum2OE_THKJytp/s1443/Focus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Focus-Rachel Gray-Wildlife Art-Endangered Species-Malaysia-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="1443" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilIsDqWebpQ1jnkTmeeiDsTK7MdnvnPL3tzvuBWE44e-qdcgrp9xNG-bjegbCn4YlISVgcyA8LTZPD1LcIT2w6VvRmelbetVkOt-f9YqA_KBJuTsOACRLWNDwMuGsfkglWlKSW0LfkCkwlb1pWfMX_MCLohAruMlN3bQEzw9DR2FUum2OE_THKJytp/w640-h284/Focus.jpg" title="Focus-Rachel Gray-Wildlife Art-Endangered Species-Malaysia-HuesnShades" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Focus - Rachel Gray</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Rachel, however, doesn’t
strive for photorealism. Her aim is to convey their character and the moments
they share. She creates the images on the tablet/computer using </span>Wacom,
which is touch, tilt and weight-sensitive tablet, <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and a stylus that
simulates the texture of oil brushes for her works and uses the software Corel
Painter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>“Painter is the best software that bridges the gap between traditional art and digital art, making it more accessible for traditional artists to make the crossover into the world of digital art.”</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">She was
the first British female artist to have a solo exhibition, </span>‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Instincts and Experiences</i>’; a collection
of digital wildlife portraits and abstract oil paintings, <span style="background: white; color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">at the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur coinciding with the
60<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the gallery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUfKygABVhMX6YNupZ4FUzDH7I-BsHy0RfRA2ZWtvYFI-iLMxal0AYbEqVoru8JEtNf63WKT49VP_gdr2Szop94Tm7J1zgkw_0-3jqPMIjqS-LI5KvREl4V2B64HPNX7hyU6PT1cW36NI_7yPxt2b62W6PBodWg3aYlLPCtmJ1vP3QGeWmKxfcJs9E/s1476/Morning%20light.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="1476" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUfKygABVhMX6YNupZ4FUzDH7I-BsHy0RfRA2ZWtvYFI-iLMxal0AYbEqVoru8JEtNf63WKT49VP_gdr2Szop94Tm7J1zgkw_0-3jqPMIjqS-LI5KvREl4V2B64HPNX7hyU6PT1cW36NI_7yPxt2b62W6PBodWg3aYlLPCtmJ1vP3QGeWmKxfcJs9E/w640-h278/Morning%20light.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYsySREUMnnp6kewZz8COyezjZPk2dwZG5KhjOCYrmhrDIlDhnngSjJuOVLDEv76gE3eCRIezlDWxMKgAOypk6p_gkDTkmQ1R0ZhkQQjilDAGvQCLAfWSi9BHUSiDigZT5_XUZDpU8mshWKcEq05gW8yD6E1CU0RTlRipDA6I2DMXMaQpp4wQQAxIE/s3146/Wildlife%20Art-Rachel%20Gray.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Rachel Gray - Wildlife Art-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2388" data-original-width="3146" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYsySREUMnnp6kewZz8COyezjZPk2dwZG5KhjOCYrmhrDIlDhnngSjJuOVLDEv76gE3eCRIezlDWxMKgAOypk6p_gkDTkmQ1R0ZhkQQjilDAGvQCLAfWSi9BHUSiDigZT5_XUZDpU8mshWKcEq05gW8yD6E1CU0RTlRipDA6I2DMXMaQpp4wQQAxIE/w640-h486/Wildlife%20Art-Rachel%20Gray.jpg" title="Rachel Gray - Wildlife Art-HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rachel Gray - Wildlife Art</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below is the video of the conversation I had with the immensely talented Rachel Gray who in spite of her hectic schedule took out some time and spoke to me. Here, Rachel
Gray speaks about “<i>Below the Canopy,</i>” her exhibition that was showcased at the Expo2020,
Malaysian Pavillion during Sustainability Week. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y2gvItDuJNw" width="320" youtube-src-id="Y2gvItDuJNw"></iframe></div><i>watch this video to hear what Rachel has to say about her practice and more</i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can reach Rachel Gray at:</span></span></p>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Website: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">www.rgportraits.com</a> <br />Instagram: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">https://www.instagram.com/rachelgray.art/</a> <br />Facebook: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">https://www.facebook.com/rgportraits</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span><br /></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com3Dubai - United Arab Emirates25.2048493 55.2707828-3.1053845361788461 20.1145328 53.515083136178845 90.4270328tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-70270338426553529232022-03-08T09:53:00.003+04:002022-07-13T19:59:18.102+04:00When Art and Words Meet on Women's Day – SHE: A Creative Dialogue <p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Art and Literature have always been intertwined for ages.
Though it can live, one cannot exist wholly without the other. They intersect
at some point or some stage tugging the chords and embracing each other. It is
such intersections that make the whole process and conjugation much more
interesting and stimulating rather than the normal path.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">One such intersection is about to happen on Mar 8 at Dusit
Thani where art, conversation and high tea meet with a lovely author and eight
UAE-based artists from various backgrounds. SHE is an expression of hues,
shades and forms imbibed from the pages of the International
journalist-best-selling author, Purva Grover’s latest book “She” which I
recommend that all girls (for that matter, guys too) must-read. It is more an
experience than a 212 pages book. When I read the book, it offered me the
feeling of hearing a friend in conversation over a cup of coffee in a quaint
café or chitchat on the living room couch over hot tea and snacks. The book
itself as mentioned by the author can be treated like a handbook with spaces
and pages for exercise or filling-ins. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The exhibition is curated by Slava Noor, Founder-Editor of
Arte & Lusso Art Magazine. Ms. Noor wishes to open up a space for the
creative dialogue that is one of the key ingredients for any creative
communion. The saplings that sprout from such fertile soil are bound to hold
the earth for favourable growth. What makes this particular art exhibition
stand out is that the artworks have been created through conversations,
enriching dialogue and exchange of ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihXwxhIUt19wtbRFgD3ygMV4xUvNPly8eWfmGlqGU8TTbugdgBrDa3g6p0xWN4CcRx0lVicKqvwCZb7fXV468BQ7TNgBIjTrAaDkO5S8hoFqoA5VtUxPjYcSdq4B2M4o55sfovkOpm7jPI4ViOQWBk6NukUX-GJ3DtSqfRsS01QsCqBMdeNDsx60_m=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="SHE - Poster - 8 Mar 2022" border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="904" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihXwxhIUt19wtbRFgD3ygMV4xUvNPly8eWfmGlqGU8TTbugdgBrDa3g6p0xWN4CcRx0lVicKqvwCZb7fXV468BQ7TNgBIjTrAaDkO5S8hoFqoA5VtUxPjYcSdq4B2M4o55sfovkOpm7jPI4ViOQWBk6NukUX-GJ3DtSqfRsS01QsCqBMdeNDsx60_m=w452-h640" title="SHE - Poster - 8 Mar 2022" width="452" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>The Curator</b></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh07h666lzql4nqde93qyqHDwXkPzSpA98fDzRsa4ewqMHtfHSx9WjxVggCTYemiY1xKWmkB86X-6_c98LF3SgMrM9tXij9v8UDOv_tolTHlabZcSkruOti8vY8y29NmroFrtf1yiFRJf_2_LMSotalIr7WyKroFJqO7C9ZyWJoD2hreQbGSrp6c33a=s1440" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Slava Noor - Curator-SHE" border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh07h666lzql4nqde93qyqHDwXkPzSpA98fDzRsa4ewqMHtfHSx9WjxVggCTYemiY1xKWmkB86X-6_c98LF3SgMrM9tXij9v8UDOv_tolTHlabZcSkruOti8vY8y29NmroFrtf1yiFRJf_2_LMSotalIr7WyKroFJqO7C9ZyWJoD2hreQbGSrp6c33a=w240-h320" title="Slava Noor - Curator-SHE" width="240" /></span></a></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />Slava Noor (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/slavanoor"><span style="line-height: 107%;">@SlavaNoor</span></a></b><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">)</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Slava Noor is passionate about various forms of art and
believe in its power to inspire people and bridge different cultures. She has
created Arte & Lusso in order to promote both local and international
talent and help artists, fashion designers and other creatives get the exposure
they deserve. She is also passionate about different cuisines and enjoys
reviewing restaurants in Dubai and Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Slava can be spotted at major art and fashion events as well
as sipping her favorite karak tea or espresso at one of the hidden cafes in
Dubai.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Author</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Purva Grover, India (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/purvagr/">@purvagr</a>) </span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiG2hEVB5WyDfpdWX57r5gkdLONVbhOclFLrAapZrBH7Wjez6DNrlK3q62ppmUB7-jc8JEHYvCpT8zgB6RXjJYhhlavc0FlJiOi4OL0dG8eXNzJ6ipJPfNEhJAq_4jlo8c3WYcCc3C1Fnnqha8NbdyOF1XEuvr7TULQJ98HdkfGLkRy61t36D8UDyQr=s1280" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Purva Grover-Author-SHE" border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="854" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiG2hEVB5WyDfpdWX57r5gkdLONVbhOclFLrAapZrBH7Wjez6DNrlK3q62ppmUB7-jc8JEHYvCpT8zgB6RXjJYhhlavc0FlJiOi4OL0dG8eXNzJ6ipJPfNEhJAq_4jlo8c3WYcCc3C1Fnnqha8NbdyOF1XEuvr7TULQJ98HdkfGLkRy61t36D8UDyQr=w214-h320" title="Purva Grover-Author-SHE" width="214" /></span></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Purva Grover is a best-selling author, international
journalist & editor, TEDx Speaker, award-winning playwright & stage
director, published poetess, spoken word artist, and creative entrepreneur. She
is the founder-editor of </span><a href="http://www.theindiantrumpet.com/" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The Indian
Trumpet</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">, a quarterly
digital magazine for Indian expats, and works as the assistant editor with
a UAE national daily, and editor, for a magazine for </span><a href="https://www.youngtimes.com/" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 107%;">young adults</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">. She is backed with a post-graduate degree in mass
communication and literature. She resides in Dubai, UAE. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">She made her debut as an author with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Trees Told Me So</i>(December 2017,
Niyogi Books). Her second title, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It
was the year 2020</i> (February 2021, Kindle India) was instantly
recognised for its profound pandemic prose. Her third title, </span><a href="https://www.purvagrover.com/she"><span style="line-height: 107%;">She</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> (August
2021, Ukiyoto) is currently making waves for its honest, relatable and fun
approach on the topic of womanhood. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Artists in Alphabetical
Order<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKspwHr6GtmXhzUIE6MXkULYqARxK9H1xHO8JbrCD8tgZgQyenuzrW6bIhaz7TFYOJNi2nFCmzZakaA4PhA3jOIpT6c___PEdzsYmpSKsaYvYIBp2eyY4PfemHzpku-VDAXI7hJXPYVa_vSSLwT8AyC87PcDuBpqTEWqO6XDmC8NfRIZsV0-osllRd=s1536" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Abda Fayyaz-Artist-SHE" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="918" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKspwHr6GtmXhzUIE6MXkULYqARxK9H1xHO8JbrCD8tgZgQyenuzrW6bIhaz7TFYOJNi2nFCmzZakaA4PhA3jOIpT6c___PEdzsYmpSKsaYvYIBp2eyY4PfemHzpku-VDAXI7hJXPYVa_vSSLwT8AyC87PcDuBpqTEWqO6XDmC8NfRIZsV0-osllRd=w191-h320" title="Abda Fayyaz-Artist-SHE" width="191" /></span></a></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />Abda Fayyaz, Pakistan (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/artbyabda"><span style="line-height: 107%;">@artbyabda</span></a></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">)<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Abda is a self-taught artist. Her work is the reflection of
the understanding of the universe and the constant changes and transformations that take place within and around us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">With a Degree in Banking and Finance, she holds over 15 years
of experience in brand development, marketing and advertising, strategy
management and more. Her main mediums are oil and acrylic mediums.
From abstract paintings to calligraphy, the artworks represent a fusion of
modern and contemporary art and traditional techniques. Abda’s art emphasizes
the importance of finding our true purpose, and that each one of us is enough
in our own capacities and that resources are always available if we have the
right connection with our inner conscious, curiosity, energies and the holistic
purpose of the universe. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYHoset6jdliZ28ZH4ej2U3jL1vd1qubfoW_W3acWFroAZFxl4hlXqgF-XRLZoqGVSecfYr9T98paTiaVPV-7TktOoX_jAZ7rEP4ye7xpxwAJI0FCtblXKq6Bp2Rgz2hic5AQo621iSohVuBA7KFd4P-kUy_WYuexvztNKuv47bheiAaWFp6sJ8I0F=s984" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Christine Dessa-Artist-SHE" border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="689" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYHoset6jdliZ28ZH4ej2U3jL1vd1qubfoW_W3acWFroAZFxl4hlXqgF-XRLZoqGVSecfYr9T98paTiaVPV-7TktOoX_jAZ7rEP4ye7xpxwAJI0FCtblXKq6Bp2Rgz2hic5AQo621iSohVuBA7KFd4P-kUy_WYuexvztNKuv47bheiAaWFp6sJ8I0F=w224-h320" title="Christine Dessa-Artist-SHE" width="224" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Christine Dessa, India (</span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/cdessart/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">@cdessart</span></a></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">) <br /><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Christine Dessa is a self-taught artist of Indian origin, who
has called Dubai her home for the last 25+ years. Art has been her passion
since childhood. Decades of practice, self-learning and brush strokes later,
she has evolved into the accomplished artist of today. She called herself
a ‘closet’ artist, painting for her pleasure, experimenting with various
mediums and techniques, while using her home as an art gallery. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Combining real-life and symbolism together with the
application of light, Christine Dessa allows her subjects to emote and have
their own voice. She incorporates realism juxtaposed against fantasy as a means
of storytelling, also allowing her viewers to connect with her art on a
personal level.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Her forte is Watercolours Portraits, while her Horses and
Oceans, require a special mention. Christine enjoys the beauty and magic of
watercolours with its fluid dynamics and transparency. Working with this less
forgiving medium has refined her painting skills a thousand-fold. She is also
very skilled with Acrylics and uses this versatile and vibrant medium for her
larger exhibition paintings on canvas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhl9kibupxD-YzXoH_Dic3mUb_JoEtcGK8W4Wz7ZPqEl1XFNKIOprmcIB7SOTxiywFAd5W-hOeJh2EDKA9JXQilfJwE1UeHibl4MpVJT4TwBSz90r4A8zMf8oV7W0iunkIFfJoD87erKbMr_WbpnH-sEx8WaISx9QccpT4Zt0HcP11x83xvvGFH7GLB=s1024" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Deepa Gopal - Artist - SHE" border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="740" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhl9kibupxD-YzXoH_Dic3mUb_JoEtcGK8W4Wz7ZPqEl1XFNKIOprmcIB7SOTxiywFAd5W-hOeJh2EDKA9JXQilfJwE1UeHibl4MpVJT4TwBSz90r4A8zMf8oV7W0iunkIFfJoD87erKbMr_WbpnH-sEx8WaISx9QccpT4Zt0HcP11x83xvvGFH7GLB=w231-h320" title="Deepa Gopal - Artist - SHE" width="231" /></span></a></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br />Deepa Gopal, India (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">@dee.huesnshades</span></a></b><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">)<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Deepa Gopal is a visual artist-creative writer currently
based in Dubai. Winner of 2021 ‘<i>Artgram</i>’ Award at the Orange Flower Awards, she
conceptualized and curated her latest, brainchild – an online exhibition of art
and poetry, ‘IGNITE-from within the confines-‘ (2020) inviting
artists and poets from across the world. Author of the blog, Hues n
Shades, she has done her Masters in English Language and Literature. Diversity
is her forte as she loves to explore and experiment with various mediums and
techniques. Most of her works are “mindscapes” as she calls them, an
introspection into the emotional and psychological states. Her
protagonists enjoy detachment; creating parallel worlds. Myths, dreams,
visions, people and their tales, the emotions and the unbridled feelings kindle
her creative juices. She sometimes couples her art with Haiku (Japanese poetic
style) or micro-poems.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Fatema Fakhruddin,
India (</span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/notnotart__fathz/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">@notnotart__fathz/</span></a></b><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">) </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKEoyu1_Yx2nj2w1cG7O0RGFi9uAaSlRUSHUJt1qMT5ABLIOEa5EzOemPFRtTr8HnHDcNpYQy9HY-qXXDQOVZ4eLAAm4I1Ab0jXCGuOcniKLfiuA_Y9gGbjXiSxSc24E2najunWnYwTcWNn71E2al0bspyxoowyCnrs56TwY1yiEbDhaSFmrH2VX1e=s1536" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Fatema Fakhruddin - Artist - SHE" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1023" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKEoyu1_Yx2nj2w1cG7O0RGFi9uAaSlRUSHUJt1qMT5ABLIOEa5EzOemPFRtTr8HnHDcNpYQy9HY-qXXDQOVZ4eLAAm4I1Ab0jXCGuOcniKLfiuA_Y9gGbjXiSxSc24E2najunWnYwTcWNn71E2al0bspyxoowyCnrs56TwY1yiEbDhaSFmrH2VX1e=w213-h320" title="Fatema Fakhruddin - Artist - SHE" width="213" /></span></a></b></div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As a person who always wears her heart on her sleeve, Fatema
decided to bring her heart out onto her canvases and pursue her avant-garde
artistic career in early 2020. Originally from India, she now lives in the
UAE with her husband and two loving children. Known for her predominant use of
bright and colorful acrylics, oils and other mediums, her paintings evolve
through words and intended puns, which compliment her bold personality. All
created in her home heart studio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The intricacy of human nature, accepting and acknowledging
one’s emotional, mental, and intellectual mindset being legitimate and
powerful, is the never-ending source of her inspiration. Her artworks challenge
the viewer to accept who they are. Portraying this through conceptual art, she
thrives on evolving and developing her artistic process and continually
learning. It allows her to communicate her emotions, which she otherwise
struggles expressing. Her artworks are a visual diary into her being. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9SJ8XLcNgIb82k0NafdifZy2in3_Imaud7rkTw7RAsLIfREro0CDPMuS09_CmV8MUQnQsZShgy5NpEOrng0qpusr5wBcwi9pWoMYsA-gotwWh2XZY4WZBQxbhjo11EiWj8yt8NxgVKmll2vPjcEJ75-2-U36FURW20imhWirP5N8b4eThUssNM2PP=s1024" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Julia Smolenkova -Artist - SHE" border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="713" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9SJ8XLcNgIb82k0NafdifZy2in3_Imaud7rkTw7RAsLIfREro0CDPMuS09_CmV8MUQnQsZShgy5NpEOrng0qpusr5wBcwi9pWoMYsA-gotwWh2XZY4WZBQxbhjo11EiWj8yt8NxgVKmll2vPjcEJ75-2-U36FURW20imhWirP5N8b4eThUssNM2PP=w223-h320" title="Julia Smolenkova -Artist - SHE" width="223" /></span></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br />Julia Smolenkova, Russia (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/julia_smolenkova/">@julia_smolenkova</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Julia Smolenkova is an international artist, publisher of two
art magazines, galleries owner, Ph.D. in the field of the history of art and
architecture, curator of international art projects, festivals, symposiums. In
her artworks, the connection between the abstract and the real creates a new space
level. Her success has been cemented with great demand from galleries in
Europe, the USA, Russia, UAE, Julia’s art is regularly purchased by
enthusiasts globally. Her original pieces of sculptures and paintings can also
be found in public and private collections, around the world as well as in the
United Nations collection. Her monumental mosaics adorn the streets of
Moscow. Her colorful paintings adorn the walls of hotels like Mandarin Oriental
Jumeira in Dubai. Julia is an avid traveler and explores worldwide cities to
acquire her inspiration, which results in the development of new collections
that are exhibited regularly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Poonam Chathurvedi (</span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/c.poonam/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">@c.poonam</span></a></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">) </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj55uA522mgSUNZVt6zaxzQEskM2vgybA6uIVA5lA58zdWGrkulURCNsVtrzT4nypRAYgNvq4gmayOYzrbozdc1MDp_kxbT_HVRkdBBRCvFh4GDLopzBVovYqquv2fue7yYr_WkRawvf9iUPsAaIJNazd-OesojkNELq_A4Legt6B4Bogu73qBv-_Nm=s1024" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Poonam Chathurvedi - Artist - SHE" border="0" data-original-height="975" data-original-width="1024" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj55uA522mgSUNZVt6zaxzQEskM2vgybA6uIVA5lA58zdWGrkulURCNsVtrzT4nypRAYgNvq4gmayOYzrbozdc1MDp_kxbT_HVRkdBBRCvFh4GDLopzBVovYqquv2fue7yYr_WkRawvf9iUPsAaIJNazd-OesojkNELq_A4Legt6B4Bogu73qBv-_Nm=w320-h305" title="Poonam Chathurvedi - Artist - SHE" width="320" /></span></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poonam is an Artist of Indian Origin and based out of Dubai,
UAE since 2007. Over the years, Poonam has been a part of many major local,
regional, and international exhibitions. Additionally, Poonam has also
presented her work as a Solo Artist in a few prominent places including, Fakih
University Hospital Dubai, Indian by Nature, Arte’s on several occasions. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUqjErz0_P4AaSOfqEapLUjHV-6JxdwhlV0dPn8e-jzIbUb0ngqoO0H_G6J2zItUc60i9_ma2FNgaoNzCfxIWP_GFtJFGXPlf0Khgk1WQ1sez-J1zJdHWrh_jDApl7YqJO3DqJNt8ZNoiG04cKh-iTDzlM_mDY_bfyQeGFcC1a2ho-xKRSNY2btSgH=s1280" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Sam, The Sassy Crayon - Artist - SHE" border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUqjErz0_P4AaSOfqEapLUjHV-6JxdwhlV0dPn8e-jzIbUb0ngqoO0H_G6J2zItUc60i9_ma2FNgaoNzCfxIWP_GFtJFGXPlf0Khgk1WQ1sez-J1zJdHWrh_jDApl7YqJO3DqJNt8ZNoiG04cKh-iTDzlM_mDY_bfyQeGFcC1a2ho-xKRSNY2btSgH=w240-h320" title="Sam, The Sassy Crayon - Artist - SHE" width="240" /></span></a></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />Samantha Lomas aka The
Sassy Crayon (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/the_sassy_crayon/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">@the_sassy-crayon</span></a></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">)<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Sassy Crayon, is a UK-born, UAE-based artist, avid
traveller and martini connoisseur. After graduating in Interior Architecture
and Design, she has spent several years travelling, living in, and embracing,
the cultures of South East Asia and Australia. No matter where she has been in
the world, her love for art has not diminished. After several years in the
business world, she decided it was time to turn to art full time. Her knowledge
of interiors and design along with intense training through several top art
institutions, enable her to create beautiful bespoke works of art for any
environment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Snehita Gehlot, India (</span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/snehiart"><span style="line-height: 107%;">@snehiart</span></a></b><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">) </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiasjXt08ltBECQvaG6w4tck0NJAYC6suZ4ue2dKOy5ZhAwlR2hjoE5zcCbRz1koqLABZhhnFNZqWgWa-XnWzEX44a7ohZ_e5_wSRRAfbgr-tArdNArx_lZ2FIT2Oe7IykHWvF5fRmNJ9wogxDx22yiYs42LgjnIb7vNpFt4B0lR7jkwaxBbV3m3bom=s1235" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Snehita Gehlot - Artist - SHE" border="0" data-original-height="1235" data-original-width="926" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiasjXt08ltBECQvaG6w4tck0NJAYC6suZ4ue2dKOy5ZhAwlR2hjoE5zcCbRz1koqLABZhhnFNZqWgWa-XnWzEX44a7ohZ_e5_wSRRAfbgr-tArdNArx_lZ2FIT2Oe7IykHWvF5fRmNJ9wogxDx22yiYs42LgjnIb7vNpFt4B0lR7jkwaxBbV3m3bom=w240-h320" title="Snehita Gehlot - Artist - SHE" width="240" /></span></a></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Snehita is a Licensed Indian Artist (Painting) &
Entrepreneur based in Dubai. She is a Visual Content creator for Art Magazine,
Fashion and Art Brands, an IT Engineer (Website, graphic design, and digital
products), an MBA and Director at Luxy Flare.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br />
As an Artist, she believes ” Art is Experimenting Fearlessly ” No fear of judgement,
and freely exploring the endless possibilities. She has always been a creative
person since her childhood, she started learning and creating at a very early
age as her mother is also an artist and art instructor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-MyRHN6-pXTKozv6yqHAn2liEogghfI_1byFzX1KVMiqZAzHSkQy2swsq5YKcUO6V6c0Jth6k4Zb9WL1YGV77RyBZsMdyCQwKK3GYQpVjyhOjM2bAVwqcNZjTGUJszB74mHrulUNntb9uUBpTgEoBn7wu6II0ceUAzyb5BQ_ydazQ7ORcf-Q5bYei=s1312" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Zumrud Zeynalli - Artist - SHE" border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="1062" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-MyRHN6-pXTKozv6yqHAn2liEogghfI_1byFzX1KVMiqZAzHSkQy2swsq5YKcUO6V6c0Jth6k4Zb9WL1YGV77RyBZsMdyCQwKK3GYQpVjyhOjM2bAVwqcNZjTGUJszB74mHrulUNntb9uUBpTgEoBn7wu6II0ceUAzyb5BQ_ydazQ7ORcf-Q5bYei=w259-h320" title="Zumrud Zeynalli - Artist - SHE" width="259" /></span></a></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Zumrud Zeynalli,
Azerbeijan-UK (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/zumrud_contemporary"><span style="line-height: 107%;">@zumrud_contemporary</span></a></b><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">)<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Zumrud Zeynalli is a contemporary artist who blends Eastern
and Western cultures in her art that is also largely inspired by childhood
fairy tales. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Zumrud is a British artist born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1981
and developed a passion for art and craft at an early age. Living and working in
London, United Kingdom allowed Zumrud to travel a lot and she visited 74
countries, explored unreal parts of the world and different cultures that
widened her horizon and inspired her to create. Coming from a very caring family and
society and moving to London, she has faced many challenges but learned how to
become an independent woman. As a woman who leads a large company in the
competitive and male-dominated oil field – she still got a chance to nurture
her creative side and express herself through painting. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“SHE” will be open to the public until March 30, 2022. The
exhibition will take place at Dusit Thani Dubai located
on Sheikh Zayed Road.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh40dAv5bzJXi-xoLlkihwkEaoQrtwpXxuJVSh3QrgTb3leEuml_yU2EwsIGV-jp-YVAFrEQEP7R5Fl1xj5KJhwwqjaEnO4h_SBkp475pyh89xrFy0jTlf3hmGdc13OiQEbEZg15kjT5y8J67_P3W_sTMa4IpO8O9CMOJx1JPOewEpaEZkmSZ5z7EV_/s235/235x96_top-indivine-post.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="96" data-original-width="235" height="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh40dAv5bzJXi-xoLlkihwkEaoQrtwpXxuJVSh3QrgTb3leEuml_yU2EwsIGV-jp-YVAFrEQEP7R5Fl1xj5KJhwwqjaEnO4h_SBkp475pyh89xrFy0jTlf3hmGdc13OiQEbEZg15kjT5y8J67_P3W_sTMa4IpO8O9CMOJx1JPOewEpaEZkmSZ5z7EV_/s1600/235x96_top-indivine-post.png" width="235" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com6Dubai - United Arab Emirates25.2048493 55.270782818.062529822833259 46.4817203 32.347168777166743 64.0598453tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-46277879841394779392022-02-15T12:31:00.016+04:002022-07-13T20:00:34.367+04:00'I'm Not A Robot' An Inaugural Exhibition Exploring And Integrating The Physical And Digital Art<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Roboto Condensed";"><span style="font-size: large;">In the pleasant urban neighbourhood at the City Walk, Dubai, the inaugural exhibition <i><I'm not a Robot></i> explores the nuances of the in-between where the digital and the traditional meet. Edward Gallagher, the Director and Curator of Galloire Art Gallery, presents six renowned artists from across the globe who are ingenious in their chosen field. The exhibition that opened on 8 Feb 2022 has works by Daniel Canogar, Jonas Lund, Addie Wagenknecht, Xavier Sole Mora, Jonathan Monaghan and Anne Spalter. The works displayed range from real paintings to AI (Artificial Intelligence) programmed and collaborated works, from virtual reality to Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Almost all the artists have developed a unique algorithm for their works that have helped their insignia. They also have an interdisciplinary approach. All of the artists point towards a technology-driven future and the many facets of consumerism that affect our day-to-day lives.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh39utAE6017AkpAvrk_3sYKc-ZoYwBAKik1PFIHSvVLhFNb27nKAD72drK_76ow6dk5R3IBWSJ7vrmQQKKHJn-yMwZibxQ3ub52UGEIazLyuUhorSINM62tNPbIQZ8qMMzibqRJ7rATuV1O_7BBvrX4gi_3oJOcn5wnuwxAopM--ZDJ-e_MMkwctdo=w640-h426" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Galloire Art Gallery</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">The Artists and The Works</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Daniel Canogar</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Canogar’s works seek audience participation and multiple perspectives. The two works – <i>Loom</i> and <i>Amalgama</i> are fine examples of how our day-to-day engagement with technology is used in creative ways of art-making. The screens are placed like sculptures. The colourful stripes passing through Loom remind us of the warp and weft of the textile as if weaving is in progress while we catch some phrases in between. They happen to be the day’s top five Google searches and it is those searches their order which gives colour to the moving stripes. In <i>Amalgama</i>, the best 500 artworks that start from Renaissance to Contemporary art are morphed into fluid forms or organic abstractions where search data is used for artistic reinterpretations of electronic information. Canogar embraces technology and draws inspiration from them to satisfy his creative outpour. He also mentions that our lives are interlaced with technology and a future without its existence is unthinkable.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Memory and loss are constant reminders in Canogar’s works. They involve in the stimulation of our senses by actively participating in his works by touch, by google searches and generated data, by movement, or by mere presence of our body temperature. They react in real-time to different data sets. Our movements are choreographed in a way that adds life to his works as in Dynamo, a site-specific audio-visual installation in the Atrium of the Spanish Pavillion at Expo 2020 Dubai. Anyone who has visited the Spanish Pavillion wouldn’t miss it. Peoples’ movement – physical and virtual, is a crucial component of his works.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2h3wl-JsXLg4IyeOMqZ71Fcs-Y9-73ftgEumetCbOkd4T0J-iMo6gtB_Ksdz9HJdqv-yFvSmdKmLi2EDn64N7GNXyZ_WPlNJWPT1zuJx3_JL1yvTDuBFW6hIJbu-Gxf0XpD3PpdJZTCwWqUOYPeD9U_MG1niiaDAZBCdNGzigkiBEdTXOIyYTaSa_=w640-h494" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Daniel Canogar's works - 'Loom' and 'Amalgama'</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2h3wl-JsXLg4IyeOMqZ71Fcs-Y9-73ftgEumetCbOkd4T0J-iMo6gtB_Ksdz9HJdqv-yFvSmdKmLi2EDn64N7GNXyZ_WPlNJWPT1zuJx3_JL1yvTDuBFW6hIJbu-Gxf0XpD3PpdJZTCwWqUOYPeD9U_MG1niiaDAZBCdNGzigkiBEdTXOIyYTaSa_=s2773"><i><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"></span></i></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Jonas Lund</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Roboto Condensed";"><span style="font-size: large;">Lund is a Swedish conceptual artist who critically engages in the networked systems, the power structure and commercial culture. Presenting a set of parameters, his works usually need viewer involvement. Lund investigates issues related to the increasing digitisation of contemporary society through the means of intellectual property, participation, and authority. He explores the complicated relationship between art and commerce. There is a game-like structure, a playfulness to his style. Lund is at once criticizing and taking advantage of the technological evolution as his works are redesigned and rearranged as a commentary on the current system and practices. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Roboto Condensed";"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Roboto Condensed";"><span style="font-size: large;">The gallery has displayed two abstract works of Lund. They are mosaics of his successful artworks that had performed well in auctions. Each work records the performance metrics and is with inbuilt near field communicators that give meta-narrative about the painting’s life to the viewer who places the phone near the canvas. It also takes you to a special portal as a collector where you can have chat and interconnectivity with other collectors of Lund’s works. Technology and art connect a community. One of his works is the only NFT in this exhibition. Since we mention NFT, Jonas Lund has his own cryptocurrency, the Jonas Lund Token (JLT) that has a worldwide community of its own.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHfCH8lr63w9K7WZAvqsV9jmrFv2qVDamkbK6OUSibes5n5Of50vSk0SlsydD1WrRahlEIiokKz6l-R06vOucpMXQy32jC1-byV-QURBqiHn_THQGy9RUGQYczqe1rCAeAZfNkUZkDN6QI3uqdCTLhm-MSlJdjYO_ElmTy8keuyzEmOCJNQnKj8wnl=w640-h426" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Jonas Lund's Untitled</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHfCH8lr63w9K7WZAvqsV9jmrFv2qVDamkbK6OUSibes5n5Of50vSk0SlsydD1WrRahlEIiokKz6l-R06vOucpMXQy32jC1-byV-QURBqiHn_THQGy9RUGQYczqe1rCAeAZfNkUZkDN6QI3uqdCTLhm-MSlJdjYO_ElmTy8keuyzEmOCJNQnKj8wnl=s3449"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Addie Wagenknecht</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Wagenknecht’s <i>Alone Together</i> series and <i>Ghost </i>series uphold female presence while being absent. These works are strong reminders of where we as women were and are. Wagenknecht’s take on Yves Klein’s “human paintbrushes” in his *<i>Anthropometry</i> paintings is absolutely stunning and noteworthy. She in turn avoided the display and made a negative space of her reclined nude, a deviation perhaps from the classic odalisque. The painting is technically assisted by a Roomba with a custom algorithm that helps it to navigate around her body until the whole canvas is mapped with Klein’s Blue. The result even when it’s a void “<i>serves to evoke the duality of being invisible while simultaneously claiming presence</i>.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><i>Ghost</i> series refers to the modern-day slang where a person disappears without explanation in the dating environment after a short stint leading to confusion and disappointment. The hope, the temporary highs, the leading negotiations, and the final vanish are documented through still life-like images of flowers veiled in tulle and organza showing different stages of progress from hope to disappointment and to renewal.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">The female lens through which the subjects and situations are examined is what adds to its beauty.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3lR-fFlxD4qFvI8HBSBfdGhXdmLjCEv51FZD5hE74jowsTwsJog2gYfU6Lfh0ov8iRht68fYyj-zLZg6nPijSl8_tYggNxAnbuIs2EFtzRizGSxStgf4pmGs9vdhGS3Gr-4PKUJ1sFDflIFjDlpaNbPms3U92xPDPe9WQepBGaj2YzV-GjlZOkl_R=w640-h426" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Victoria admiring Addie Wagenknecht's 'Self Portrait - Snow on Cedar'</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3lR-fFlxD4qFvI8HBSBfdGhXdmLjCEv51FZD5hE74jowsTwsJog2gYfU6Lfh0ov8iRht68fYyj-zLZg6nPijSl8_tYggNxAnbuIs2EFtzRizGSxStgf4pmGs9vdhGS3Gr-4PKUJ1sFDflIFjDlpaNbPms3U92xPDPe9WQepBGaj2YzV-GjlZOkl_R=s3449"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Xavier Sole Mora</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Intensely influenced by Goya, Xavier’s works explore the playfulness and viciousness side by side. A satire on the violent, grotesque and dark world with a fresh impishly nasty perspective, Sole Mora engages the audience verging on the absurd. The theme of good and evil, power-play bordering on cruelty making it tempting and voyeuristic through seemingly naive setups are his insignia. As an artist, Sole Mora’s practice explores the possibilities of technology such as virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence to create narratives around social commentary.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">The work in the experience room of Galloire, the <i>Golden Feast</i> is a revisit on Goya’s<i> Fool’s Folly</i> from his series <i>Disparates</i>. The etched bulls are here replaced by floating golden hippos that keep bobbing in the air like balloons. A dangerous animal, the deadliest land mammal, is made playful and borders on the comic as virtual reality take us to a farcical land.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">In virtual reality and video work, Sole Mora examines our guilty pleasures and our ability to indulge in them. The artist has glamorized the hippos by displaying them in an all-golden hue. As we put on the VR, we are transported to a world surrounded and threatened by the golden hippo presenting a dream-like state. Sole Mora plays with the sense of threat and the beauty assigned to the hippos; the stark contrast of things provoking us to “enjoy” what actually is unenjoyable.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgF37S9sjrdjHfi4fpVeFh1uMXivLB3mzzf0Xac7tTfp--Oyva4Qm0q_GnFW110htXoPRaXT5E4a-TkYpN97DlFqz_RcggO3L0yz2zj8rYb8EEHPtdkTMJivqBk1ne2A2YLHT_jssTIGlLvnuajxLmMyzAcdRon8qh3guyNTRAlmF1g4zorHTrsE17H=w640-h426" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Slava Noor, Founder and Editor of Arte & Lusso experiencing Xavier Sole Mora's virtual reality 'Golden Feast'</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgF37S9sjrdjHfi4fpVeFh1uMXivLB3mzzf0Xac7tTfp--Oyva4Qm0q_GnFW110htXoPRaXT5E4a-TkYpN97DlFqz_RcggO3L0yz2zj8rYb8EEHPtdkTMJivqBk1ne2A2YLHT_jssTIGlLvnuajxLmMyzAcdRon8qh3guyNTRAlmF1g4zorHTrsE17H=s3449"><i><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed;"></span></i></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Jonathan Monaghan</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Drawing inspiration from a wide range of areas from art history to video games to contemporary materialistic culture, Monaghan produces fantastical, candy-colored and otherworldly realms. They provide critical reflection as it examines and uncovers unsettling anxieties associated with technology and consumerism perhaps indicating a bionic future. He creates new mythology for a contemporary society based on technology and materialism.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Monaghan’s two works, <i>Soft Power I</i> and <i>II</i>, replicate aristocratic and royal portraiture and are embellished to the point of being dramatic – portraits of ominous figures. One can observe the signs of the corporate logos and consumer electronics of modern-day also reminding us of pop art, in a blend of his own. It may very well signify our current pandemic state with the face covered in velvet masks evoking us of a Baroque aesthetic with its pomp and grandeur. The portraits are a study of power in the digital age. In the <i>Alien Sofa I</i> (series- <i>A Trace Left by the Future</i>), the real and the artificial seem to fade in ambiguity. The compositions are so textured that it plays with the sense of touch but the reality is otherwise. Again, the real and the artificial worlds collide; Monaghan seems to love to toy with that idea and offer a dystopian (or is it utopian?) glimpse.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDvRhsQVrA5PfYibZ4Wu-e0-GhCH2DlsrAATrWfYEG7l3ewGOjQsJZGlJtWmVEKuI0cwJaB4nfyHiZBn5OWrhdNYafMbYTbMoSMuoN-OzLw5rJ5w6IiGwYt_03NFCoDAKGGReKcg9buEoWS0HXjMkVCqfERL441VqEZ_8C--3doDZgDAdlQdBuX1oQ=w640-h426" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Jonathan Monaghan's works Soft Power I, Soft Power II and Alien Sofa I</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDvRhsQVrA5PfYibZ4Wu-e0-GhCH2DlsrAATrWfYEG7l3ewGOjQsJZGlJtWmVEKuI0cwJaB4nfyHiZBn5OWrhdNYafMbYTbMoSMuoN-OzLw5rJ5w6IiGwYt_03NFCoDAKGGReKcg9buEoWS0HXjMkVCqfERL441VqEZ_8C--3doDZgDAdlQdBuX1oQ=s3449"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Anne Spalter</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Anne Spalter is an academic pioneer and a digital mixed media artist. In her artistic process, Spalter synthesizes a consistent set of personal symbols with traditional mark-making methods and innovative digital tools further combining AI algorithms with oil paints and pastels to create her unique and incredible works.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Spalter presents a surrealistic landscape in <i>Lost Signals</i>, a video loop and two of her pastel on paper works that abound in personal symbols even while striking a chord with the collective unconscious. The works are AI-generated and combined with traditional media integrating art and technology. One can see the use of light and lighthouses, an interest in signaling as a form of communication, as a warning and the connection that ensues through portals. There’s a sense of spiritual lacing with lighthouses as anchors that guide the wayward travelers, cautioning and communicating to them to be careful, all the while shedding the light and Spalter exploring that base. Again, this work is quite meditative to an observant viewer and deals with subconscious layers. Lighthouses and water are common themes and symbols in Spalter’s works.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiuHk3u1BwaZtMi4NkhGvFTzng3ciSLEvse_KH8EWO4LDFZD9IQm0A0UMqsNykREcluNx23THRuB-2WQMAngXtfRd86K0U2cIdEOhbX3YLAtlX6StySl0NYUA3zAYSD82shd2YuN6NIHu7M_lXyw0izp5MB6lml6ZvqMePw_ARG7ioziOk5YfvisKM=w640-h426" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Anne Spalter's work 'Electric Pathway to the Lighthouse'<br />In the background, Addie Wagenknecht's 'Ghost' series</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiuHk3u1BwaZtMi4NkhGvFTzng3ciSLEvse_KH8EWO4LDFZD9IQm0A0UMqsNykREcluNx23THRuB-2WQMAngXtfRd86K0U2cIdEOhbX3YLAtlX6StySl0NYUA3zAYSD82shd2YuN6NIHu7M_lXyw0izp5MB6lml6ZvqMePw_ARG7ioziOk5YfvisKM=s3449"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">You can also find an incredible code poem by Kenny R Brown.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkVwVYF1DagdJeT3g4uijINUa7IZ7hszlIfH82-iVcGlAkEvjbEnM1oKZhVGPmwwkGsjzQMRQPNbRq0pyic8BKI0BlT18YOE2SsJ5B3HKkMtMZyCgzpS4UYUrapPlZS1jkbtBbNHyInfson0SHtLV-z53JPG4SnnRhUaV1fmNDY1gTOLM36aMQp7xY=s1440" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkVwVYF1DagdJeT3g4uijINUa7IZ7hszlIfH82-iVcGlAkEvjbEnM1oKZhVGPmwwkGsjzQMRQPNbRq0pyic8BKI0BlT18YOE2SsJ5B3HKkMtMZyCgzpS4UYUrapPlZS1jkbtBbNHyInfson0SHtLV-z53JPG4SnnRhUaV1fmNDY1gTOLM36aMQp7xY=w400-h400" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Code poem by Kenny R Brown</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9sqsIIlAS-k10Itu6BeFYCMDqChhJdV9jaIYSLOffv73sBEa1eDmDBZbMljSGCOveKQb-UsHXpbXBoXTDuaIfKUxOldUuAXH_94Bh-tj4Dxeq_dQDqlhtkIwT6_3FCHQ4mrJu92G9RPhDi_EbWp1lvxAe2RAcwddDykqXk_XLPpvv1DshalQAn0Dp=w640-h480" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">At a time like the present when we are badly hit by the pandemic and when physical communication has been curbed, where our life is lived through digital screens, reminding us of the impact of technology and the reliance on it 24x7, this exhibition raises pertinent questions and becomes more prominent. Technology is advancing at such a pace that there’s no discerning as to where it will take us. It is not only forecasting but also generating and establishing a future.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><I am not a Robot> will run until 28 Feb 2022 at Galloire Art Gallery, London Street, City Walk, Dubai. You can also view the works via the gallery’s website <a href="https://www.galloire.com/">https://www.galloire.com/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">It is always better to see such exhibitions in person. Do visit the gallery and experience the show. Addie Wagenknecht and Daniel Canogar happen to be my personal favourites. Who are yours?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;">Thanks to Slava Noor and Edward Gallagher for the invite. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: medium;"><i>*Anthropometry paintings are paintings where Yves Klein dipped nude women in his patented International Klein Blue paint in front of an invited audience along while the musicians played Klein’s Monotone Symphony – a single note played for twenty minutes followed by twenty minutes of silence.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjReWTsjFWJK76RVPoCb5r8i9ZlSXqAcuJQXGjR9ZqwEN3hERfwWX7EpBbBNk1NyBwPhsjAlc4zeq6OmN28X8m9q6YtU-9o6za-WP0UZ726cPS5ReKee0x2wqoctecmR9R_hGkY2ReOh1vSFUfYMyYz6B6D1_yFXULoywunk-yL8k_Fen5ElzysEKsL/s235/235x96_top-indivine-post.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="96" data-original-width="235" height="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjReWTsjFWJK76RVPoCb5r8i9ZlSXqAcuJQXGjR9ZqwEN3hERfwWX7EpBbBNk1NyBwPhsjAlc4zeq6OmN28X8m9q6YtU-9o6za-WP0UZ726cPS5ReKee0x2wqoctecmR9R_hGkY2ReOh1vSFUfYMyYz6B6D1_yFXULoywunk-yL8k_Fen5ElzysEKsL/s1600/235x96_top-indivine-post.png" width="235" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-27621458859605709072022-02-06T11:01:00.006+04:002022-07-13T20:03:30.329+04:00Kerala Museum Goes Digital!<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqfs7xg7-G9EnHDgZXPNhxOtFmirGcvWXvkLktskRVGN95gCnrAa9GwSFYe2o5hrLb_4c4FbBF3hCY31zhVoAqzGaq6mw3l_W5j1c_54U82Pq0uxb90OBBjm61s8HQQTpa0JM3ApSU1Zz2OJcTWnRL8fQTp7anrehJqn-JESv6P0DOIvriyM1dkdT3=s1775" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="KM-MNF_GA&C_Flying Horses, Sleepy Tigers and Colossal Crows" border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1775" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqfs7xg7-G9EnHDgZXPNhxOtFmirGcvWXvkLktskRVGN95gCnrAa9GwSFYe2o5hrLb_4c4FbBF3hCY31zhVoAqzGaq6mw3l_W5j1c_54U82Pq0uxb90OBBjm61s8HQQTpa0JM3ApSU1Zz2OJcTWnRL8fQTp7anrehJqn-JESv6P0DOIvriyM1dkdT3=w640-h316" title="KM-MNF_GA&C_Flying Horses, Sleepy Tigers and Colossal Crows" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>From Flying Horses, Sleepy Tigers and Colossal Crows</i></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><div style="text-align: justify;">From a time when one could access art only on the walls of the white cube to a time when it has become easier to access with a few taps of your fingertips, art and technology have come a long way. Google Arts and Culture is a platform where one can access almost all exceptional museums and galleries with its high-definition images where one can view all artworks up and close like never before. Our very own Kerala Museum has joined those ranks, the first of its kind from our zone and what makes it even more accessible is that it is bilingual taking into account the regional audience as well. Thanks to the recent partnership between Kerala Museum and Google Arts and Culture.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The virtual exhibition was inaugurated and opened by the esteemed Chief Guest, Mr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament of Thiruvananthapuram, on 22 Jan 2022. Other session speakers were Dr. Venu Vasudevan, Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Kerala, Prof. K.T. Ravindran, Urban Designer, Trustee of Madhavan Nayar Foundation, Prof. Gulammohammed Sheikh, Artist in Conversation Discussant, Prof. Anshuman Das Gupta, Artist in Conversation Moderator and the Museum Director, Aditi Nayar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Over two hundred artworks from the Kerala Museum Madhavan Nayar Foundation Collection are on view on Google Arts & Culture from the comfort of your home on your devices.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLzbvPXuvpu7edJ26MxEt6xGRTBsN6TgcuDdaOtb-2sc7LxNvcviwqnfK0xk0ulS-Aoz1MdjZv-ID5vZ9bmG0mXhbSdIs2XZZIoEAlVwwgAKhmf2n2NtaKZ1D7RGDOl0E_7GCuoSoE_XHDDKa2LcbESXnC8SvcrIV9gWl048WVcWAQgVBMrS-LMx-u=s1242" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1242" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLzbvPXuvpu7edJ26MxEt6xGRTBsN6TgcuDdaOtb-2sc7LxNvcviwqnfK0xk0ulS-Aoz1MdjZv-ID5vZ9bmG0mXhbSdIs2XZZIoEAlVwwgAKhmf2n2NtaKZ1D7RGDOl0E_7GCuoSoE_XHDDKa2LcbESXnC8SvcrIV9gWl048WVcWAQgVBMrS-LMx-u=w400-h235" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Virtual opening on 22 Jan 2022<br />image: Kerala Museum Instagram</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament and Chief Guest at the launch of the Kerala Museum on Google Arts & Culture said:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“<i>It is a delight to launch the Madhavan Nayar Foundation’s Kerala Museum, a repository of the state and nation’s artistic genius, on a global platform like Google Arts & Culture. In addition to the use of the latest in technology, I deeply appreciate the effort that has gone into making the digital collection available in Malayalam and English. Such measures showcase the foundational stories of our country and culture, and remind us that the vitality of collaborations depends on a plurality of conversations.</i>”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ten Digital Exhibits</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kerala Museum has developed ten specially curated virtual exhibits for online visitors. They tell the story of India’s most prominent art movements in the 20th Century, notably The Bengal School and Santiniketan, the Bombay Progressives and the Baroda School. The digital experiences explore the practice of Indian artists and artist collectives against the backdrop of the nation's historical and cultural atmosphere.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Diversity and Individuality: Experiments in 1960’s Calcutta: Speaks about the establishment, evolution and progress of the Society of Contemporary Artists that laid the foundation for a strong printmaking tradition in the 1960s. The collective celebrated its Golden jubilee with an exhibition in Kolkatta in 2009.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/QgXhcQfwa2vrIg" target="_blank">https://artsandculture.google.com/story/QgXhcQfwa2vrIg</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Flying Horses, Sleeping Tigers, and Colossal Crows: Objects of Admiration and Allegory: Fantastical beasts and birds inhabit strange, whimsical worlds taking the viewers into an unbelievable and yet authentic realm where one could see and imagine what might lie beyond our “normal” powers of perception.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/SQUB5vSg_RHLJg" target="_blank">https://artsandculture.google.com/story/SQUB5vSg_RHLJg</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Emergence of Indian Modernism: Santiniketan and the Bengal School: Santiniketan and Bengal School of Arts that moulded and expanded the Indian art scene during the early 20 century and added flavor and passion to the Nationalist Movement in the fight against the British Rule is focussed here. The era of Rabindranath, Abanindranath Tagore, Jamini Roy, Nandalal Bose, K G Subramanyan, Benode Bihari Mukherjee, Ram Kinkar Baij, Asit Haldar and the other veterans.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/2AVRI9hkgKidIQ" target="_blank">https://artsandculture.google.com/story/2AVRI9hkgKidIQ</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Bombay Progressives: Breaking New Ground at the Dawn of India’s Independence: The Bombay Progressives at the dawn of a Free India and their effort to modernize the new Indian art scene with the Progressive Arts Group forming and disbanding within a year and yet having a lasting impact is what’s showcased here. Stalwarts like MF Hussain, F N Souza, S H Raza, H A Gade, Akbar Padamsee, Krishen Khanna, and Ram Kumar enriched the art scenario.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/bwWR2KjgTwIrJQ" target="_blank">https://artsandculture.google.com/story/bwWR2KjgTwIrJQ</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rama Varma, Artist Thampuran: Explores his works and his contribution to the Kerala’s art heritage establishing the renowned Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts in Mavelikkara. Following his illustrious father’s style and his contributions as a teacher and activist, he has left behind an impressive legacy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/AgXxNjo7Xt6qKQ" target="_blank">https://artsandculture.google.com/story/AgXxNjo7Xt6qKQ</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Women Artist in the Kerala Museum Collection: Includes Mangala Bai Thamburatti- sister of Raja Ravi Varma, Aparna Caur, Naina Dalal, Rini Dhumal, Jayasri Burman, Prabha and Rekha Rodwittiya exploring and articulating the gender issues and feminine intentions. I would love to see this collection grow and am sure that it would do so under the able hands of Aditi Nayar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/FwWB7swGMe0jKQ" target="_blank">https://artsandculture.google.com/story/FwWB7swGMe0jKQ</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Travancore Painters: Within and Beyond the Court: This story mentions the court painters like the illustrious Raja Ravi Varma, Mangala Bai (who worked as a “hobby” because of her gender), Madhava Warrier, Sekhara Warrier, Neelakantan Pillai. Not to mention the effort of Ravi Varma to mass-produce his works that helped change the national aesthetic and artistic sentiments.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/JwURG5KOCGBbJQ" target="_blank">https://artsandculture.google.com/story/JwURG5KOCGBbJQ</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For Some, For All: Pioneers of Printmaking in India: From Raja Ravi Varma who mass-produced his works to Nandalal Bose who introduced it in Kalabhavan to Somnath Hore who influenced the Society of Contemporary Artists like Sanat Kar and Lalu Prasad Shaw who paved vital inroads in printmaking in the 60s.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/_wVRpdbOBcEyYw" target="_blank">https://artsandculture.google.com/story/_wVRpdbOBcEyYw</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rhythm, Flow and Line: Where Dance and Painting Meet: Sudhir Katsgir and Shiavax Chavda’s energetic and rhythmic strokes capture the classical beauty in its dance forms. Though there are only a few works in this section, it turned out to be one of my favourites for its brevity, simplicity, and packed energy. One of my favourites among the ten.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/PQWRXhO1XixP1g" target="_blank">https://artsandculture.google.com/story/PQWRXhO1XixP1g</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eyes, Windows into the Soul: The Maya of Sanat Kar: One of the founding members of the Society of Contemporary Artists he revolutionized printmaking by using techniques like cardboard intaglio and sun mica printmaking. The focus of his work was the wide-open soulful eyes and he explored the theme of “Maya” – illusion. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/4AWxZiBCEhFCgg" target="_blank">https://artsandculture.google.com/story/4AWxZiBCEhFCgg</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqJf7BIzRroYeDHfdP0kN6C9vr0LHV9HttWbIzHdNICQIS88dflvmxKM9r5ORt4b66cKOJdHJIZ_WkneMZTnN7fIRz6vhp1PwTo5gmMBz01dJOM9_1dVO7Z9YMPHbH66fu4ECKR9DuvEu-v_hA0KO5k6GasYA8QABCeUjiJXDRyR0DlXLUOboHg4Oe=s2433" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1740" data-original-width="2433" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqJf7BIzRroYeDHfdP0kN6C9vr0LHV9HttWbIzHdNICQIS88dflvmxKM9r5ORt4b66cKOJdHJIZ_WkneMZTnN7fIRz6vhp1PwTo5gmMBz01dJOM9_1dVO7Z9YMPHbH66fu4ECKR9DuvEu-v_hA0KO5k6GasYA8QABCeUjiJXDRyR0DlXLUOboHg4Oe=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Reverie - Raja Ravi Varma/ Study of Cave No:2, Ajanta Caves - Nandalal Bose<br />image:Kerala Museum</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Get up close with ultra-high resolution images</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many hidden gems of modern Indian art, like <i>The Portrait of a Man</i> by Lalu Prasad Shaw can now be viewed in never before seen definition thanks to Gigapixel technology, a powerful photo-capturing process, which has enabled the highest ever resolution image of this feature. Viewers can explore the painting in extraordinary detail and experience it far beyond what is visible to the naked eye, such as the precise geometric pencil strokes Shaw uses to provide depth in his paintings. Nandalal Bose and Raja Ravi Varma acknowledged as amongst the Navaratnas of Indian Art, are amongst the treasures of the Kerala Museum that have been digitized with Gigapixel technology. Nandalal’s ink drawing of The Buddha’s mother Maya (<i>Untitled</i>) is a study of Cave No. 2 at the Ajanta Caves and sheds light on his keen interest in frescoes and their influence on his distinctive visual style. Varma’s <i>Reverie</i> shows how the master skillfully uses the scumbling technique to render the fine translucency of the cotton Kerala <i>kasavu </i>saree.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">These immersive online stories can also be experienced on the Kerala Museum’s website,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Malayalam: <a href="https://www.keralamuseum.org/km-gac-ml" target="_blank">https://www.keralamuseum.org/km-gac-ml</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">English: <a href="https://www.keralamuseum.org/km-googlearts" target="_blank">https://www.keralamuseum.org/km-googlearts</a></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;">Special mention to the earnest efforts of Smt. Geeta Nair for the translations from English to Malayalam. A postgraduate in English Language and Literature and 30 years of teaching experience, Smt. Nayar has translated several works from Malayalam to English and vice versa.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNkK0vFDa7OBu_XJjGHYsrit4pxdj2t0EXfTlLh8LfeiqkZAxvRgVZNOqel3s8_OsQsJC81NAGnN_-P1KSQuwzjlquFjOP0YIl5nVoDI1x3XYGtLUJdYGzMaXrH3Bpoc-PDCoVGAHS5A89WhvFkjX0n2BMAGEwvbLZZRMVRP0CIkOITXb4MLEAzG_q=s1500" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Kerala Museum-Edapally-Kochi" border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1500" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNkK0vFDa7OBu_XJjGHYsrit4pxdj2t0EXfTlLh8LfeiqkZAxvRgVZNOqel3s8_OsQsJC81NAGnN_-P1KSQuwzjlquFjOP0YIl5nVoDI1x3XYGtLUJdYGzMaXrH3Bpoc-PDCoVGAHS5A89WhvFkjX0n2BMAGEwvbLZZRMVRP0CIkOITXb4MLEAzG_q=w400-h300" title="Kerala Museum-Edapally-Kochi" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>image: Kerala Museum</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>About Kerala Museum</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Kerala Museum is located at the heart of Kochi city in Kerala. Managed by the Madhavan Nayar Foundation, its core objective is to provide interactive, engaging and experiential arts and history-based learning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Museum is a vibrant beacon of the arts, powered by in-house curation and collaborations with NGOs working across a spectrum of social issues. Through its programs, it aims to actualize the potential of the “Museum as an instrument of social change”, thereby influencing critical thinking and tolerance towards the world around us, and better citizenship. With a 37 year-long track record as a non-governmental initiative providing authentic learning experiences in history, fine arts and performing arts, the Museum has hosted over half a million visitors and ignited the minds of school children from over 5000 schools from all over India.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Google Arts & Culture</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Google Arts and Culture was launched in 2011 as Google Arts Project with virtual art tours, high definition close-up views of artworks and artifacts of cultural organizations and institutions across the world, even landmarks and streets, audio-visual contents, pet portraits powered by AI, Games, etc. You can browse by artists, art movements, historic events and even mediums.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">National Museum-New Delhi, National Gallery of Modern Art, Archeological Survey of India, Raja Ravi Varma Heritage Foundation, Dastkari Haat Samiti, Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian’s National Museum, Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Musee d’Orsay, Museo Frida Kahlo, Tate Britain, Tokyo National Museum, State Russian Museum and many more are available for view.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Google Arts & Culture puts the collections of more than 2,000 museums at your fingertips. It is an immersive way to explore art, history and the wonders of the world, from Van Gogh’s bedroom paintings to the women’s rights movement and the Taj Mahal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Google Arts & Culture app is free and available online for iOS and Android. Their team has been an innovation partner for cultural institutions since 2011. They develop technologies that help preserve and share culture and allow curators to create engaging exhibitions online and offline, inside museums.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Check it out: <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/partner" target="_blank">Collections — Google Arts & Culture</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To sum it up, this is what Aditi Nayar, Director of Kerala Museum has to say:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“<i>Our new partnership with Google Arts & Culture creates an excellent opportunity to inspire and delight a global audience, and illustrate our collection's importance. To further expand our reach, and to make the collection uniquely accessible, we have made it available in English and Malayalam. This will be the first collection of its kind from Kerala to harness the Google Arts & Culture platform’s multilingual capabilities, enabling users and learners, whether on a large screen or a mobile device, to intuitively search and experience art in Malayalam and English. The ultra-high-resolution digitization of almost two hundred of our artworks using Gigapixel technology has created a resource-bank on modern Indian art the likes of which exists nowhere else. We look forward to inviting students and scholars from across Kerala, India and the world, to experience our collection’s highlights and hidden gems, offline and online.</i>”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5GGh_MLjUW7gdGHKO2o9iGD2qYxNaVjYi3LJ1rLpW-8w5ZP578YRkZUsXl2e-lE8PggTE65UHIMs8JWJkZKT4Jbj3pLG7_Ka5yOKLVIaYNWOYfCwPZ_ShiL4310YqeRVQ2Gm3ZURAh88QXxlPRtojhlVkKgRFSovb11aqATROYMPZxTkFXUDc5eLM=s1035" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1005" data-original-width="1035" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5GGh_MLjUW7gdGHKO2o9iGD2qYxNaVjYi3LJ1rLpW-8w5ZP578YRkZUsXl2e-lE8PggTE65UHIMs8JWJkZKT4Jbj3pLG7_Ka5yOKLVIaYNWOYfCwPZ_ShiL4310YqeRVQ2Gm3ZURAh88QXxlPRtojhlVkKgRFSovb11aqATROYMPZxTkFXUDc5eLM=w200-h194" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Aditi Nayar</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Aditi Nayar: Born in Cochin, educated at St.Xavier’s College, Bombay, Chelsea College of Art and then at the Wimbledon College of Art in London, Aditi Nayar, the Director of Kerala Museum and the Founder’s, R Madhavan Nayar, grand-niece is also an artist whose works range across media from video and audio installations to kinetic sculpture, latex, fiberglass, rope and oil on canvas.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For those who would like to contact and visit the Kerala Museum:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="mailto:info@keralamuseum.org">Email: info@keralamuseum.org</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Madhavan Nayar Foundation, Pathadipalam, Edappally, Kochi</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ph: 0484 4020506/2541768</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mob: +91 8129051881</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghb9pyGr-bEnVONetBqlYpCu5Zv5ldHr676B2X99t14IpzPSi-qGIg4a3KuTjKk4f5jcbeEZhZmjqEXtLBjafXz8RuvP-xgf8lj7mtXgMBOw_tdjTKcgRZRLkJtlNxvjiakcX08q8XHvCMk2o9cnbreNa4U6sdH4jaTSgsIT88KtNRHUdAFzxTEjJJ/s235/235x96_top-indivine-post.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="96" data-original-width="235" height="81" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghb9pyGr-bEnVONetBqlYpCu5Zv5ldHr676B2X99t14IpzPSi-qGIg4a3KuTjKk4f5jcbeEZhZmjqEXtLBjafXz8RuvP-xgf8lj7mtXgMBOw_tdjTKcgRZRLkJtlNxvjiakcX08q8XHvCMk2o9cnbreNa4U6sdH4jaTSgsIT88KtNRHUdAFzxTEjJJ/w200-h81/235x96_top-indivine-post.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com3Dubai - United Arab Emirates25.2048493 55.2707828-3.1053845361788461 20.1145328 53.515083136178845 90.4270328tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-20282288245425502492021-04-30T23:47:00.010+04:002022-07-13T20:05:16.832+04:00Day 26 - Z (A to Z Challenge) and Day 30 - Life moves (Napowrimo)<p><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 26 AtoZ Challenge</span></b></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 26. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The intention is to reach out to young girls in specific and everyone in general who need to hear some positive and empowering affirmations each day. Just a humble alliterative effort. I wish we could all inspire each other everyday, place a helping hand, a shoulder to rest for a while, embrace to overcome the each other's pain, ease with laughter and a extend a bit of company to one another. In short, empower one another.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Edit: Got Featured on Napowrimo!!! Thank you for the feature!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Check it out - <a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/2021/05/" target="_blank">https://www.napowrimo.net/2021/05/</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdqqlCJpQjoh1HaKzB5NPP4Fccm_D8JvCuf66BK2kRLEx-8ZO9MSetaf0m7lyTogIuqqjV5YurFVQUTSL0Ufv2Bv1C0BKuOVGo4Mq8PNi2FjVo-KTIzr7uWVok_EY4IF466iUegb4uxBs/s2048/Z+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Z-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdqqlCJpQjoh1HaKzB5NPP4Fccm_D8JvCuf66BK2kRLEx-8ZO9MSetaf0m7lyTogIuqqjV5YurFVQUTSL0Ufv2Bv1C0BKuOVGo4Mq8PNi2FjVo-KTIzr7uWVok_EY4IF466iUegb4uxBs/w480-h640/Z+-+sml.jpg" title="Z-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; text-align: left;"><b><b style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 30 Napowrimo</span></b></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #222222; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Past those alleys buried in time<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Past those frontiers caved from sight<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Past those fences that align the
periphery<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Of the lost, discarded city one finds<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Treasures buried – </span></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">tiny treasures blind</span></span></p></span></span></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">To
the naked eyes</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">A
sapling in the crease of the dilapidated</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">Second-storey
where they had hung lush green ferns</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">A
random rose that buttons itself up from perilous grounds</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">Hum
of the bees singing to the sunshine</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">As
dust arising to touch the trees</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">The
rustling of the banyan as it greets home</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">The
children of tomorrow</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">The
faded aroma of the spices that once was held</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">In
flamboyant hues arranged on wooden palettes</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">All
that leads to the middle mansion</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">Where
dreams grow in bundles</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">Saturated
and ebullient</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">Disbursed
in tiny totems</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">Sprinkled
across each street</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">Named
after life’s spirited details</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">And
passions, love and life itself</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">The
horizon and the zenith merge at this point</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">Life moves </span></b><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">seamlessly
in all directions.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white; line-height: 107%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p></span></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; text-align: left;"><b><b style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;">Napowrimo prompt:</b></span></b></span></b></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></span></b></span></b></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;">Today’s prompt is based on a prompt written by </span><a href="https://jacquelinesaphra.wordpress.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jacqueline Saphra</a><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;">, and featured in </span><a href="https://poetrysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/NPCwritingworkshops2015.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this group of prompts</a><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;"> published back in 2015 by The Poetry Society of the U.K. This prompt challenges you to write a poem in the form of a series of directions describing how a person should get to a particular place. It could be a real place, like your local park, or an imaginary or unreal place, like “the bottom of your heart,” or “where missing socks go.” Fill your poem with sensory details, and make them as wild or intimate as you like.</span></i></b></span></b></span></b></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></span></b></span></b></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;"></b></span></b><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;"></b></span></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And we have reached the final day of both A to Z challenge and Napowrimo. I can't believe that a month has gone by! Thanks to </span></span><span style="color: #474747; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Maureen Thorson for the 30-day Napowrimo challenge. It's been quite a journey creating my fluid art and writing poetry. Thanks to everyone of you who visited and left behind an imprint of their visit and for the love and support through comments.</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views on my poem. What do you gather from my art that you see here? Would love to hear from you. </span>You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="color: black; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></b></p><p style="color: black; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;"></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></p><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="color: #249fa3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/w320-h78/Untitled-1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></span></span></span></div></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-50178167430729636962021-04-29T16:53:00.005+04:002022-07-13T20:06:28.455+04:00Day 25 - Y (A to Z Challenge) and Day 29 - The Window of that Time (Napowrimo)<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 25 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 25. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRH9zA-OyH5e_xG0cPoEBigJEJN-21vv4Iw220XQDunYe_mkTN5naiXtmsGbtcnn99s5p7qUg9_2291dzCGIQWrbAX29F4R90wdWxn3R1dXcl2mjYfs73GRBIFjTvvp2dLjZv3h0zp2RE/s2048/Y+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Y-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRH9zA-OyH5e_xG0cPoEBigJEJN-21vv4Iw220XQDunYe_mkTN5naiXtmsGbtcnn99s5p7qUg9_2291dzCGIQWrbAX29F4R90wdWxn3R1dXcl2mjYfs73GRBIFjTvvp2dLjZv3h0zp2RE/w480-h640/Y+-+sml.jpg" title="Y-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 29 Napowrimo</span></b></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">A world of unknown that can be shut<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">When the outside forms a threat<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">A world of luminous possibilities<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">Sacrosanct, meditative and at once flamboyant<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">Mystic secrets piled within, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><i>*red-breasted Trogon - a bird</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><i>*gulmohar - flowering tree </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>*raat ki rani - literal meaning queen of the night. Night blooming jasmine or it could also mean the Queen of the Night (nishagandhi) that blooms only at night.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><i>*aham - "I" in Sanskrit</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><i>*brahmam - the Lord/ the omnipotent</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Napowrimo prompt:</b></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;">This one is called “in the window.” Imagine a window looking into a place or onto a particular scene. It could be your childhood neighbor’s workshop, or a window looking into an alien spaceship. Maybe a window looking into a witch’s gingerbread cottage, or Lord Nelson’s cabin aboard the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">H.M.S. Victory</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;">. What do you see? What’s going on?</span></i></b></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I went into a mystic mode which wasn't what I had intended and I did find the words flowing through though.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;"><br /></b></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;"></b></span></b><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;"></b></span></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;"><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views on my poem. What do you gather from my art that you see here? Would love to hear from you. </span>You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></b></p><p style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></p><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="color: #249fa3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/w320-h78/Untitled-1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></b></span></b></div></div></b></span></b></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-11476928275798415892021-04-28T22:59:00.004+04:002022-07-13T20:06:43.909+04:00Day 24 - X (A to Z Challenge) and Day 28 - Where I begin to Stop? (Napowrimo)<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 24 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 24. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></div><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPGgVq9RRIIbXkMfhM_Qt4K7EqSUkvnGJ1UHsk2BKtHpC6mAmhhWWUEhnuvRIK7Lbcag4UQ5sh_9yyJRoJiq9C4MoK_exXilZS3Agm_frUbrHRJz_3323szHgaabKVLUJBMoL_ULcdCpI/s2048/X+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="X-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPGgVq9RRIIbXkMfhM_Qt4K7EqSUkvnGJ1UHsk2BKtHpC6mAmhhWWUEhnuvRIK7Lbcag4UQ5sh_9yyJRoJiq9C4MoK_exXilZS3Agm_frUbrHRJz_3323szHgaabKVLUJBMoL_ULcdCpI/w480-h640/X+-+sml.jpg" title="X-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 28 Napowrimo</span></b></b></b></p><p><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">Where do I begin to stop?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">Where do I begin?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">With time or being old?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">With the love or life that seems so
cold.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">What time does the sun rise and set?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">Will it rain today? You bet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">When is the next full moon with its
fabulous silhouette?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting. </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p></p><p><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Napowrimo prompt:</b></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;"><i>Write a poem that poses a series of questions. The questions could be a mix of the serious (“What is the meaning of life?”) and humorous (“What’s the deal with cats knocking things off tables?”), the interruptive (“Could you repeat that?”) and the conversational (“Are those peanuts? Can I have some?”). You can choose to answer them – or just let the questions keep building up, creating a poem that asks the reader to come up with their own answer(s).</i></span></b></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;"><i><br /></i></span></b></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;"></b></span></b></b></span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;"></b></span></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;"><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views on my poem. What do you gather from my art that you see here? Would love to hear from you. </span>You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></b></p><p style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></p><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="color: #249fa3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/w320-h78/Untitled-1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></b></span></b></div></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-423335570407955352021-04-27T22:10:00.004+04:002022-07-13T20:07:05.429+04:00Day 23 - W (A to Z Challenge) and Day 27 - She Moved, Slightly-- (Napowrimo)<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 23 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 23. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The intention is to reach out to young girls in specific and everyone in general who need to hear some positive and empowering affirmations each day. Just a humble alliterative effort. I wish we could all inspire each other everyday, place a helping hand, a shoulder to rest for a while, embrace to overcome the each other's pain, ease with laughter and a extend a bit of company to one another. In short, empower one another.</span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLMxNZbAwo2oHza84bcZMxPCs0-acuabxAKH1eq5Sv4SdvBlc7DNv-dVt_edUp0Gote4IwUKXuE6foOunZzjV1X_CXsoXN8VUxTgZEGzfNRXdr_R-UnmIjbeevnyuECivD7a_5ek4q8Vo/s2048/W.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="W-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLMxNZbAwo2oHza84bcZMxPCs0-acuabxAKH1eq5Sv4SdvBlc7DNv-dVt_edUp0Gote4IwUKXuE6foOunZzjV1X_CXsoXN8VUxTgZEGzfNRXdr_R-UnmIjbeevnyuECivD7a_5ek4q8Vo/w480-h640/W.jpg" title="W-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 27 Napowrimo</span></b></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #222222; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">Looking into the mirror<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">She erased the filigree memory,
wiping it off<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">Like wiping the vapourised glass<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">She stood transfixed, staring <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">At her own reflection<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></p></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Napowrimo prompt:</b></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: start;">In today’s (optional) prompt, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem inspired by an entry from the </span><a href="https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: start;">. The entries are very vivid – maybe </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">too</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: start;"> vivid! But perhaps one of the sorrows will strike a chord with you, or even get you thinking about defining an in-between, minor, haunting feeling that you have, and that does not yet have a name.</span></i></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">I chose Opia from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><i><b>opia</b><br />
n. the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel
simultaneously invasive and vulnerable—their pupils glittering, bottomless and
opaque—as if you were peering through a hole in the door of a house, able to
tell that there’s someone standing there, but unable to tell if you’re looking
in or looking out.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;"><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views on my poem. What do you gather from my art that you see here? Would love to hear from you.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></b></p><p style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></p><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="color: #249fa3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/w320-h78/Untitled-1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></b></span></b></span></div></span>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-1955379805191362592021-04-26T21:45:00.003+04:002022-07-13T20:07:22.093+04:00Day 22- V (A to Z Challenge) and Day 26 (Napowrimo)<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 22 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 22. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The intention is to reach out to young girls in specific and everyone in general who need to hear some positive and empowering affirmations each day. Just a humble alliterative effort. I wish we could all inspire each other everyday, place a helping hand, a shoulder to rest for a while, embrace to overcome the each other's pain, ease with laughter and a extend a bit of company to one another. In short, empower one another.</span></div></span><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"></b></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5lfJVe11AQ2UhCdDN5dcD5C2MOpOEeYljrVxscY2hgYVmZAT4AcnhReeLz1VHjd7aG2OKMBlq_0s4DB0QOciFVRtaiOQsU3H5vMcctz5OjHEFkv2kMyVj62vg2fuIwkQUviTyBTN26k/s2048/V+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="V-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5lfJVe11AQ2UhCdDN5dcD5C2MOpOEeYljrVxscY2hgYVmZAT4AcnhReeLz1VHjd7aG2OKMBlq_0s4DB0QOciFVRtaiOQsU3H5vMcctz5OjHEFkv2kMyVj62vg2fuIwkQUviTyBTN26k/w480-h640/V+-+sml.jpg" title="V-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></b><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></b></div><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 26 Napowrimo</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b></b><p></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"></b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqpeadonqkDYVhFmzqRMQGVdALNtGuL7AzjwiFb1e9iMxmKLiKwHHL1nx_LUngOKispJR-td1POUDnUzo8HCqLV9TF-Ocjzrtg6wykTTlSy395CemcGIupO6W9yds1_6ZW8zS4f97f_Vg/s2048/IMG_4550.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Day26-Napowrimo-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqpeadonqkDYVhFmzqRMQGVdALNtGuL7AzjwiFb1e9iMxmKLiKwHHL1nx_LUngOKispJR-td1POUDnUzo8HCqLV9TF-Ocjzrtg6wykTTlSy395CemcGIupO6W9yds1_6ZW8zS4f97f_Vg/w640-h480/IMG_4550.JPG" title="Day26-Napowrimo-HuesnShades" width="640" /></a></b></b></div><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b></b><p></p><div><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April </span><span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>Today's image of A to Z is one I was inspired from a picture I had collected from Pinterest sometime back, do not remember the artist. It was sculptural-kind of a painting.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"> </span></div></div></div><p style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkgmeppLivsG-K1HlvV2hXZcmpjyKtWD2fmwRETZWKSwQCxiLmP5oVTByeBzlAS6RSOr2HmjBnuVX9zrnLSRd630v_SbJGyWT3ubLPLQdK7RewbtRh9ow7x81cEmqAbCpapZ7LRg4_xc/s397/logo-napowrimo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="60" data-original-width="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkgmeppLivsG-K1HlvV2hXZcmpjyKtWD2fmwRETZWKSwQCxiLmP5oVTByeBzlAS6RSOr2HmjBnuVX9zrnLSRd630v_SbJGyWT3ubLPLQdK7RewbtRh9ow7x81cEmqAbCpapZ7LRg4_xc/s320/logo-napowrimo.png" width="320" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></b></b></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-6702904362019690732021-04-24T23:44:00.006+04:002022-07-13T20:07:39.766+04:00Day 21- U (A to Z Challenge) and Day 24 - Fear and Curiosity (Napowrimo)<p> <b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 21 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 21. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></b></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfwPoHdFkWpFX9i1VfVPhLXsyT5W7S2CRNPlm_w4Fj1gMCA2AA0h4Ox-boZAw9AAsx_UCg_zfTI4Kgt49czy47LmxVUTlN6_5FVE8D4g8WVIUhp0n8mv1QWFFVZkfE4oGOPvM9UfwcsNU/s2048/U+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="U-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfwPoHdFkWpFX9i1VfVPhLXsyT5W7S2CRNPlm_w4Fj1gMCA2AA0h4Ox-boZAw9AAsx_UCg_zfTI4Kgt49czy47LmxVUTlN6_5FVE8D4g8WVIUhp0n8mv1QWFFVZkfE4oGOPvM9UfwcsNU/w480-h640/U+-+sml.jpg" title="U-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"></b></span></b></span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"></b></span></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 23 Napowrimo</span></b></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: medium;"><b>Fear and Curiosity</b></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">On a crisp spring morning in 2008, Fear overheard a pair
of Curiosities having a chat. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Fear had been tracking Curiosity for some years now when the
Curiosities, nicknamed Flywing and Bigeye, nuzzled their enormous boxy heads
and began to talk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Satisfy",serif; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting. </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Napowrimo prompt:</b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;"><i>Today’s (optional) prompt is a fun one. Find a factual article about an animal. A Wikipedia article or something from National Geographic would do nicely – just make sure it repeats the name of the animal a lot. Now, go back through the text and replace the name of the animal with something else – it could be something very abstract, like “sadness” or “my heart,” or something more concrete, like “the streetlight outside my window that won’t stop blinking.” You should wind up with some very funny and even touching combinations, which you can then rearrange and edit into a poem.</i></span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I took inspiration from an article at National Geographic, "<i>Groundbreaking effort launched to decode whale language</i>" by Craig Welch. This was a pretty interesting exercise particularly to note how the meaning and the intensity of the subject changes and varies with reference to who/what it pertains to.</span></span></p><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April </span><span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div></div></div><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkgmeppLivsG-K1HlvV2hXZcmpjyKtWD2fmwRETZWKSwQCxiLmP5oVTByeBzlAS6RSOr2HmjBnuVX9zrnLSRd630v_SbJGyWT3ubLPLQdK7RewbtRh9ow7x81cEmqAbCpapZ7LRg4_xc/s397/logo-napowrimo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="60" data-original-width="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkgmeppLivsG-K1HlvV2hXZcmpjyKtWD2fmwRETZWKSwQCxiLmP5oVTByeBzlAS6RSOr2HmjBnuVX9zrnLSRd630v_SbJGyWT3ubLPLQdK7RewbtRh9ow7x81cEmqAbCpapZ7LRg4_xc/s320/logo-napowrimo.png" width="320" /></a></b></div><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b><p></p>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-83854749171773852872021-04-23T13:46:00.004+04:002022-07-13T20:07:57.570+04:00Day 20 - T (A to Z Challenge) and Day 23 - I am Still Invisible (Napowrimo)<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 20 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 20. <span style="text-align: left;">All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></span></div><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The intention is to reach out to young girls in specific and everyone in general who need to hear some positive and empowering affirmations each day. Just a humble alliterative effort. I wish we could all inspire each other everyday, place a helping hand, a shoulder to rest for a while, embrace to overcome the each other's pain, ease with laughter and a extend a bit of company to one another. In short, empower one another.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilBYscXKGQWtDVFo5Z9xJSlmG03dD8Hq_hV_actdzdX9o9ZwrajRR-QatMAwkh9qF4xLyze8yNTgakLF-075kDLqCqamRngRldm0rJBvbLU-ufCeFDtL68I1Wg-zyFLTB8W0UQo51erXs/s2048/T+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="T-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilBYscXKGQWtDVFo5Z9xJSlmG03dD8Hq_hV_actdzdX9o9ZwrajRR-QatMAwkh9qF4xLyze8yNTgakLF-075kDLqCqamRngRldm0rJBvbLU-ufCeFDtL68I1Wg-zyFLTB8W0UQo51erXs/w480-h640/T+-+sml.jpg" title="T-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 23 Napowrimo</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The Dance of the Eunuchs to the drum beat<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Of the City sweating
and pelting—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Carouseling the streets of the elaborate maze<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Dazzled by the
prick of heat—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Blinded by the suborn summer—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Neglected obliterated
to the newness of each second.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></p></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Napowrimo prompt:</b></span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><i><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">One thing that makes me want to write poetry is reading poetry. Sometimes, reading another poet’s work gives me an idea or image. And sometimes I read a poem that I want to formally respond to – whether because I agree with it, or disagree with it, or just because it starts a conversation in my head that I want to continue on the page.</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that responds, in some way, to another. This could be as simple as using a line or image from another poem as a jumping-off point, or it could be a more formal poetic response to the argument or ideas raised in another poem. You might use a favorite (or least favorite poem) as the source for your response. </p></i></b></span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">My poem today, is something that I had to pen down after reading "<i>The Dance of the Eunuchs</i>" by Kamala Das. It's from her collection "<i>Summer in Calcutta</i>". This probably was a response to the feelings that seeped in through her words. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views on my poem. What do you gather from my art that you see here? Would love to hear from you.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="color: black; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></b></p><p style="color: black; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></p><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="color: #249fa3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/w320-h78/Untitled-1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></b></span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-70700213428839937622021-04-22T22:40:00.003+04:002022-01-02T22:45:54.965+04:00Day 19 - S (A to Z Challenge) and Day 22 - The Golden Dunes Sing (Napowrimo)<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 19 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><p><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 19. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></span></b></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaISZHzG9AoVLeWyNQje6TxrV9DGPCxnPNQ-wnt_Fsk0FV-2h4FxSFxBqADVPcl5cSWm1gj5_ZKl2qfPxckMwKiomNR0cul_KGFExjL-fJd_DNSz03pmQGyLHLzlwCsueuSoshMEGWO54/s2048/S+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="S-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaISZHzG9AoVLeWyNQje6TxrV9DGPCxnPNQ-wnt_Fsk0FV-2h4FxSFxBqADVPcl5cSWm1gj5_ZKl2qfPxckMwKiomNR0cul_KGFExjL-fJd_DNSz03pmQGyLHLzlwCsueuSoshMEGWO54/w480-h640/S+-+sml.jpg" title="S-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 21 Napowrimo</span></b></span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">the golden
dunes sing <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">of the knowledge
bearers <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">of the
ancient times...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span><span style="color: black;"><span>Astrolabe -</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">ancient astronomical instrument that was a handheld model of the universe.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Tanoura - a folkloric dance form. Tanoura refers to skirt.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Darvish - devoted followers of Sufism.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Napowrimo prompt:</b></span></b></span></b></span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>It comes to us from <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Poets & Writers</span>’ “<a href="https://www.pw.org/writing-prompts-exercises?genre=31" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Time is Now” column</a>, which provides weekly poetry prompts, as well as weekly fiction and creative non-fiction prompts.</i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>In a prompt originally posted this past February, <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Poets & Writers</span> directs us to <a href="https://lithub.com/on-the-complexity-of-using-the-mango-as-a-symbol-in-diasporic-literature/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">an essay by Urvi Kumbhat</a> on the use of mangoes in diasporic literature. As she discusses in her essay, mangoes have become a sort of shorthand or symbol that writers use to invoke an entire culture, country, or way of life. This has the beauty of simplicity – but also the problems of simplicity, in that you really can’t sum up a culture in a single image or item, and you risk cliché if you try.</i></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"></b></i></span></b></span></b></span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>But at the same time, the “staying power” of the mango underscores the strength of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">metonymy</a> in poetry. Following <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Poets & Writers</span>’ prompt, today I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that invokes a specific object as a symbol of a particular time, era, or place.</i></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Today's poem is my tribute to country I live in - U.A.E, Dubai to be precise.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views on both my art+alliteration and my poem. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></b></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></p><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="color: #249fa3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/w320-h78/Untitled-1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-47692041433948180312021-04-21T22:15:00.003+04:002022-01-02T22:43:42.532+04:00Day 18 - R (A to Z Challenge) and Day 21 - Waiting for the Next Arrival (Napowrimo)<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 18 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 18. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></b></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5L96DSEipmneZcvZLqsR7qwEnBIBzt8twwHrSnDez6ObFUK8udFaOYEdc-5RYm4zDLKeYBqXhQH_cftS-4WjH7v-cvAjtF6aYLO4uMS3dCd_-khnFQU4zA4FojVXB_sbBydHA144b2GI/s2048/R+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="R-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5L96DSEipmneZcvZLqsR7qwEnBIBzt8twwHrSnDez6ObFUK8udFaOYEdc-5RYm4zDLKeYBqXhQH_cftS-4WjH7v-cvAjtF6aYLO4uMS3dCd_-khnFQU4zA4FojVXB_sbBydHA144b2GI/w480-h640/R+-+sml.jpg" title="R-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 21 Napowrimo</span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Creepster; font-size: large;">‘twas was all dark inside<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Creepster; font-size: large;">inside the mouth of the house<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Creepster; font-size: large;">‘twas the mouth that ate us all<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Creepster; font-size: large;">when we joyfully ran around<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Creepster; font-size: large;">‘twas joyful sharing our lives<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Creepster; font-size: large;">when lives simmered in lights<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Note: title underlined</i></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Napowrimo prompt:</span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;">Our (optional) prompt. Have you ever heard or read the nursery rhyme, “</span><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2008/11/there_was_a_man_of_double_deed.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There was a man of double deed</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;">?” It’s quite creepy! A lot of its effectiveness can be traced back to how, after the first couplet, the lines all begin with the same two phrases (either “When the . . .” or “Twas like,”). The way that these phrases resolve gets more and more bizarre over the course of the poem, giving it a headlong, inevitable feeling.</span></i></span></b></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Though I had intended to use some other repetition I finally ended up using the ones in the example and since I had just watched "The Haunting of the Hill House", I used that series as my inspiration for this poem. It does have the sense of a nursery rhyme and the desired spookiness, I guess. To complete the effect, I thought I should use a spooky font as well. So what do you think?</span></span></span></span></p><div style="color: #222222; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views on both my art+alliteration and my poem. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div style="color: #222222; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></b></span></b></p><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="color: #249fa3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/w320-h78/Untitled-1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: move; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-74350161071633307352021-04-20T22:32:00.009+04:002022-01-02T22:40:49.321+04:00Day 17 - Q (A to Z Challenge) and Day 20 - Korean verse - Sijo (Napowrimo)<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 17 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 17. <span style="text-align: left;">All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The intention is to reach out to young girls in specific and everyone in general who need to hear some positive and empowering affirmations each day. Just a humble alliterative effort. I wish we could all inspire each other everyday, place a helping hand, a shoulder to rest for a while, embrace to overcome the each other's pain, ease with laughter and a extend a bit of company to one another. In short, empower one another.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUxpfvPNlcr8mCUtB3wx4YPu0GYtUny563Qmb3qzcbHiPEKQG1uF7vxbr2knvqUk3g8YNDoncNaflwcsGbVZkgDdSuEJz2is-JXxnwI6oeNVem59Yi1nGZ65L8wRN4K7hP293IjbQO39g/s2048/Q+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Q-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUxpfvPNlcr8mCUtB3wx4YPu0GYtUny563Qmb3qzcbHiPEKQG1uF7vxbr2knvqUk3g8YNDoncNaflwcsGbVZkgDdSuEJz2is-JXxnwI6oeNVem59Yi1nGZ65L8wRN4K7hP293IjbQO39g/w480-h640/Q+-+sml.jpg" title="Q-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 20 Napowrimo</span></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">Curator of Lost Souls</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">The sun lights up the room—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">Through the lace curtained bow window
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">The diffused light spreads and specks
of dust...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Napowrimo prompt:</span></b></span></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;">Our (optional) prompt for the day is to write a sijo. This is a traditional Korean poetic form. Like the haiku, it has three lines, but the lines are much longer. Typically, they are 14-16 syllables, and optimally each line will consist of two parts – like two sentences, or a sentence of two clauses divided by a comma. In terms of overall structure, a sijo functions like an abbreviated sonnet, in that the first line sets up an inquiry or discussion, the second line continues the discussion, and the third line resolves it with a “twist” or surprise. For more on the sijo, check out the primer </span><a href="https://www.sejongculturalsociety.org/writing/current/resources/sijo_guide.php" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;"> and a long list of examples in English, </span><a href="https://www.sejongculturalsociety.org/writing/past/2020/winners/sijo.php#1ad" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></span></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="color: #222222; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><p>I had heard of <i>Sijo</i> but had never tried it before and I do hope mine does justice to the form and content. It's always fun to try something new and am enjoying these daily prompts extremely. It provokes varied new ways of thinking. </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views on both my art+alliteration and my poem. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div style="color: #222222; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="color: #249fa3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/w320-h78/Untitled-1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></span></b></span></span></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-52487404645874402512021-04-19T16:52:00.007+04:002022-01-02T22:38:37.586+04:00Day 16 - P (A to Z Challenge) and Day 19 - At an Unknown Station (Napowrimo)<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 16 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 16. <span style="text-align: left;">All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Oe49S73Z2BGEScC2gH9vrcjCqdeKYK_Kwy0cp340a8X4gOjfNkFZHYyNPdsb_xS4MsPlDEb4onBK-WCwqWUMGls5MrDdKH9RtQpahZ5zs4YD6YqPOJXo20-dHTxQ9LmyYPK5a1LwyLo/s2048/P+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="P-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Oe49S73Z2BGEScC2gH9vrcjCqdeKYK_Kwy0cp340a8X4gOjfNkFZHYyNPdsb_xS4MsPlDEb4onBK-WCwqWUMGls5MrDdKH9RtQpahZ5zs4YD6YqPOJXo20-dHTxQ9LmyYPK5a1LwyLo/w480-h640/P+-+sml.jpg" title="P-AtoZChallenege-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 19 Napowrimo</span></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">At an Unknown Station</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">The old lady sat on the corner chair<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">In the waiting area of a secluded station<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">Legs folded back, holding a small clay urn<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">So close as if in warm embrace<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">The old man sat beside, torn and tattered<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Cuprum; font-size: large;">Cupping her shoulder bone <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Satisfy",serif; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Napowrimo prompt:</span></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a humorous rant. In this poem, you may excoriate to your heart’s content all the things that get on your nerves. Perhaps it’s people who tailgate when driving, or don’t put the caps back on pens after they use them. Or the raccoons who get into your garbage cans. For inspiration, perhaps you might look to this list of </span><a href="https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-insults/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shakespearean insults</a><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">. Or, for all of you who grew up on cartoons from the 1980s, perhaps this compendium of </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNz6eHfsESQ" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Skeletor’s Best Insults</a><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> might provide some insight.</span></i></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span></i></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is a rant (not a funny one though), I guess, on the current situation with increasing number of Covid deaths and people losing their dear ones. Parents losing the children and children losing their parents are daily statistics that is terribly heart-wrenching. In those cases however, no one is allowed to go near the dead/'lost' member. A neighbour, an old aunty, lost her son to Covid last month and she lives alone back home next to my parents'. She received the news of the death and she hadn't seen her son for the past 3 years as he was working abroad. She told my mother the other day that she doesn't feel that her son has passed away and that he might still be working abroad. He may even turn up at her doorstep someday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="color: #249fa3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/w320-h78/Untitled-1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-65972275259582942092021-04-18T14:24:00.004+04:002022-01-02T22:32:11.787+04:00Day 18 - Being Visited by Words - Napowrimo<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Day 18 Napowrimo</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4QPGInY9gFgj6Ua6qF8a_NftbPCdV7S7-QoalxrPzuRHhy_A9OCs1u76h_491joOUR7uRRBL2uUjv_45Atop0ZKvwReKclhMljtaUHSf320iFNwZrfARwCI2vc9f1rRUdeIb74DxNSQ/s1453/Words-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Words-Napowrimo-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1453" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4QPGInY9gFgj6Ua6qF8a_NftbPCdV7S7-QoalxrPzuRHhy_A9OCs1u76h_491joOUR7uRRBL2uUjv_45Atop0ZKvwReKclhMljtaUHSf320iFNwZrfARwCI2vc9f1rRUdeIb74DxNSQ/w400-h264/Words-1.jpg" title="Words-Napowrimo-HuesnShades" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>image from Google</i></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;"><b>Being visited by words</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">Some days they visit me frequently—<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">Bombarding.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">On other days they neglect<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">I wonder why they turn up when they do<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">I always have some for close comfort<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">Many dangle from cob-webbed corners—<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Napowrimo prompt:</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><i><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;">Our (optional) daily prompt! This one comes to us from </span><a href="https://serendippity.home.blog/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stephanie Malley</a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">, who challenges us to write a poem based on the title of one of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">chapters</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"> from Susan G. Wooldridge’s</span></span></span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;">. The book’s </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Poemcrazy-Freeing-Your-Life-Words/dp/0609800981/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202450006&sr=8-1" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">table of contents</a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 400;"> can be viewed using Amazon’s “Look inside” feature. Will you choose “the poem squash?” or perhaps “grocery weeping” or “the blue socks”? If none of the 60 rather wonderful chapter titles here inspire you, perhaps a chapter title from a favorite book would do? For example, the photo on my personal twitter account is a shot of a chapter title from a P.G. Wodehouse novel — the chapter title being “Sensational Occurrence at a Poetry Reading.”</span></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I chose one of the titles from Susan G Wooldridge's book, "<i>Being Visited by Words</i>" from Section 5 - Lights and Mysteries (53)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Do let me know your views. You can click on the Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>PS: </span><span>Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April </span><span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJdKWgptW7BpbsXhMbF9wxoAREsPWUBCnsnMAODI88BwX0lBT-4-R52A_LaSBxcLxdGSdOrPU_rYqch1lv7RDnnGvdsCqbVGiNxNO4J5s6tAxfC3YArfgntaA4mJ8YSA2AWm5B_k-evoo/s397/logo-napowrimo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="60" data-original-width="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJdKWgptW7BpbsXhMbF9wxoAREsPWUBCnsnMAODI88BwX0lBT-4-R52A_LaSBxcLxdGSdOrPU_rYqch1lv7RDnnGvdsCqbVGiNxNO4J5s6tAxfC3YArfgntaA4mJ8YSA2AWm5B_k-evoo/s320/logo-napowrimo.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-66396690400959439032021-04-17T14:34:00.003+04:002022-01-02T22:29:48.108+04:00Day 15 - O (A to Z Challenge) and Day 17 - Unto You (Napowrimo)<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 15 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 15. <span style="text-align: left;">All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash. Edited digitally.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUtO6DC7F84BwqA2iQzd9MCM2pwuUOfsN8Ez0KxS2_nDsnGlU3IxuqUASP5QuYDB6PN5v8Ucsb2bAqnkJ1awNfeGXu1hvyh0GJGicu5464AU5fmXCmAp_8U5D43exU1L9FXJxYpgHyStk/s2048/O+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="O-AtoZChallenge-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUtO6DC7F84BwqA2iQzd9MCM2pwuUOfsN8Ez0KxS2_nDsnGlU3IxuqUASP5QuYDB6PN5v8Ucsb2bAqnkJ1awNfeGXu1hvyh0GJGicu5464AU5fmXCmAp_8U5D43exU1L9FXJxYpgHyStk/w480-h640/O+-+sml.jpg" title="O-AtoZChallenge-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Day 17 Napowrimo</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: start;"><br /></b></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">you rose with a silver<br />crescent of a ring and a blood red hue<br />the other day— <br /><br />was it anger or passion that you wore?<br />couldn’t decide for sure...<br /><br /></span><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i></span><b style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Napowrimo prompt:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: start;">Our (optional) prompt. I’ve seen some fairly funny twitter conversations lately among poets who are coming to terms with the fact that they keep writing poems about the moon. For better or worse, the moon seems to exert a powerful hold on poets, as this large collection of </span><a href="https://poets.org/text/poetry-and-moon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">moon-themed poems</a><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: start;"> suggests. Today, I’d like to challenge you to stop fighting the moon. Lean in. Accept the moon. The moon just wants what’s best for you and your poems. So yes – write a poem that is about, or that involves, the moon.</span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div style="color: #222222;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This poem of mine was originally written in 2018 a couple of days after the Super Blue Blood moon. I am a Luna-lover and I have photos of the moon in my collection and I have attempted a couple of poems earlier as well. So this seemed a perfect chance to edit the 2018 one, polish and refine it a bit. I fine-tuned it after reading the prompt today.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">In case you are interested to see some nocturne paintings of mine, click </span><b><a href="https://deepazworld.blogspot.com/2018/07/nocturne-series-studying-magic-of-night.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></span></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="color: #249fa3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/w320-h78/Untitled-1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-64515751664061388592021-04-16T14:14:00.007+04:002022-01-02T22:27:15.439+04:00Day 14 - N (A to Z Challenge) and Day 16 - Life in Parallels (Napowrimo)<p><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 14 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 14. The intention is to reach out to young girls in specific and everyone in general who need to hear some positive and empowering affirmations each day. Just a humble alliterative effort. I wish we could all inspire each other everyday, place a helping hand, a shoulder to rest for a while, embrace to overcome the each other's pain, ease with laughter and a extend a bit of company to one another. In short, empower one another.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash. Edited digitally.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YjoSxWoqzNZ2BxEf0HpkdOAT58rQnFkGoWitvaDu42qIQ9o5R5KzFE9sF0CawMd2H3LfpfLBUWZfmd72Hq2vWwKenievdg-Uf9ZTmQ3Sz9W9epjusrqr4A2HlwbpV9ooU9-2ZH7zmKc/s2048/N+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="N-AtoZChallenge-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YjoSxWoqzNZ2BxEf0HpkdOAT58rQnFkGoWitvaDu42qIQ9o5R5KzFE9sF0CawMd2H3LfpfLBUWZfmd72Hq2vWwKenievdg-Uf9ZTmQ3Sz9W9epjusrqr4A2HlwbpV9ooU9-2ZH7zmKc/w480-h640/N+-+sml.jpg" title="N-AtoZChallenge-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><b style="color: black; font-size: large;">Day 16 Napowrimo</b></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">night fell silently<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">across the whole expanse, stealthily<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">eyes wide open, i ran violently<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">until sweat streamed profusely<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">like i stood under a shower...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On second thoughts, adding a fun one too:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">The elephant
and the ant <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">Walked through
the sand<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">The temple
bells rang<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">They made
their way and sang<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: x-large;">Hymns,
prayers and cymbals clang...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></span></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p></span></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Napowrimo prompt:</b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: start;"><i>Because it’s Friday, today I’d like you to relax with the rather silly form called Skeltonic, or tumbling, verse. In this form, there’s no specific number of syllables per line, but each line should be short, and should aim to have two or three stressed syllables. And the lines should rhyme. You just rhyme the same sound until you get tired of it, and then move on to another sound. </i></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: start;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: start;"><i>Skeltonic verse is a fun way to get some words on the page without racking your brains for deep meaning. It’s a form that lends itself particularly well to poems for children, satirical verse, and just plain nonsense.</i></span></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This prompt was a bit easy on me this time. I actually came up with three short poems and finally decided to go with this one. Love the choices and variety of these everyday prompts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The elephant and the ant is a colloquial/oral comic kind-of-series that we have regionally, around. There are many jokes based on the duo/pair.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Here, I would like to mention some blogs I have been following. There are some more which I shall share soon. We have reached mid-way of Napowrimo and though I find it difficult to visit all the blogs, I would like to name a few:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Namratha Varadharajan - <a href="http://namysaysso.com/">http://namysaysso.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Ira Mishra -<a href="http://livelife2dfullest.blogspot.com/">http://livelife2dfullest.blogspot.com/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Feby Joseph - <a href="https://silvercowcreamer.wordpress.com/">https://silvercowcreamer.wordpress.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Smitha V - <a href="https://smithavishwanathsblog.com/">https://smithavishwanathsblog.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Selma Martin - <a href="https://selmamartin.com/blog/">https://selmamartin.com/blog/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Kim Russel - <a href="https://writinginnorthnorfolk.com/">https://writinginnorthnorfolk.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Paula Aamli - <a href="https://soundcloud.com/paula-aamli">https://soundcloud.com/paula-aamli</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Vandana Bhasin - <a href="https://feelings161.wordpress.com/">https://feelings161.wordpress.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Graham Parker - <a href="https://grahamparkerpoetry.com/">https://grahamparkerpoetry.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Alana - <a href="https://apowrimo.home.blog/">https://apowrimo.home.blog/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Merril Smith - <a href="https://merrildsmith.wordpress.com/">https://merrildsmith.wordpress.com/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Maria L Berg - <a href="https://experiencewriting.com/">https://experiencewriting.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>(I need to get some more awesome links, shall add in my later posts)</i></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="color: #249fa3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/w320-h78/Untitled-1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: start;"></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-84669425416580383282021-04-15T15:40:00.004+04:002022-01-02T22:24:40.651+04:00Day 13 - M (A to Z Challenge) and Day 15 - Visions (Napowrimo)<div class="separator"><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 13 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 13. The intention is to reach out to young girls in specific and everyone in general who need to hear some positive and empowering affirmations each day. Just a humble alliterative effort. I wish we could all inspire each other everyday, place a helping hand, a shoulder to rest for a while, embrace to overcome the each other's pain, ease with laughter and a extend a bit of company to one another. In short, empower one another.</span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6K4T7SypBXhCeiuZ320yxPTPLZASAZns6-hzB_Iywtpt-3I6VjOkXFKBbIjnBJixZwt_TcHkhNgcE_ZfJ_gD-hRf6YM6r51wWlgINAYmJxZywaAh7egszyANo_KNicNK91p6_4yPr_ys/s2048/M+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="M-AtoZChallenge-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6K4T7SypBXhCeiuZ320yxPTPLZASAZns6-hzB_Iywtpt-3I6VjOkXFKBbIjnBJixZwt_TcHkhNgcE_ZfJ_gD-hRf6YM6r51wWlgINAYmJxZywaAh7egszyANo_KNicNK91p6_4yPr_ys/w480-h640/M+-+sml.jpg" title="M-AtoZChallenge-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: start;">All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash. Edited digitally.</span></span></span></span></span></p><div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Day 15 Napowrimo</b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">Mooring the stars to the tiny houseboat<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">I zig-zagged along the pebble to the tip of the cliff<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">I saw the horizon bleeding<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">Alarmed, my hair rose on my skin<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">I wished to dip my brushes into it<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">Paint a fury painting or a passionate one<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Satisfy",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This is not on Napowrimo prompt as such. Since I didn't have time to write today, I am posting a poem that was selected and published in an anthology called "<i>Beyond Words</i>." It is my habit of imagining and envisioning scenarios, a bit of a waking dream and a lot of tying up the elements and trying to recreate it and mostly failing at it as it would never match the the 'idea' I conjure up. I am learning and getting better at it, sometimes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggShyphenhyphenz7h3Pbi37muu1MrpIhwhmfLf7pK7CGMCCoYA2SFavYlf2wXy68MYb1xk1VPpX4MJ-poCyy8Jv54l_KpD_So184m3__Qlzy-oUl5dnhmaSUEGy-jPmU1cwTp_Hkp3krSDWceQNllI/w320-h78/Untitled-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-9553628322712829752021-04-14T21:18:00.002+04:002022-01-02T22:22:53.306+04:00Day 12 - L (A to Z Challenge) and Day 14 - Light (Napowrimo)<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 12 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 12. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpILQ4JdurIKSXgdQI4DupzzFeL856InG_vDRuFziPBhwh7jbnpd4Ftntzkeb44L8pThxP_xiyHptTJJNBtoGe7CrY08Wjnt92uaT-sAxmKGT6AFwMd5ANKartxn6db7m6VbDGq_4ubFY/s2048/L+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="L-AtoZChallenge-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpILQ4JdurIKSXgdQI4DupzzFeL856InG_vDRuFziPBhwh7jbnpd4Ftntzkeb44L8pThxP_xiyHptTJJNBtoGe7CrY08Wjnt92uaT-sAxmKGT6AFwMd5ANKartxn6db7m6VbDGq_4ubFY/w480-h640/L+-+sml.jpg" title="L-AtoZChallenge-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: start;">All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></span></span></span></span></p><div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Day 14 Napowrimo</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There is no home without <i>me<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If there is, they long for my presence<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A place of worship abounds with <i>me</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It pervades sanctity, an offering to God<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">I</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"> always win in the eternal war over darkness<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">I am</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"> a child’s glee and lovers’ delight<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>*Deepa means Light.</i></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>*Ravana - the ten-headed Demon-King of Lanka. He was a great scholar and master of multiple skills but the 10 emotions (/ten heads - anger, greed, lust, envy, pride, ego etc.) that ruled him led him to his ultimate defeat and death.</i></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>*Dussehra - also known as Vijayadashami is a major Hindu festival celebrated at the end of Navaratri every year. It involves the burning of effigy of the Demon-King, Ravana to mark the victory of Lord Rama; the victory of good over the evil, light over darkness.</i></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Napowrimo prompt:</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; text-align: start;">Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that delves into the meaning of your first or last name. Looking for inspiration? Take a look at </span><a href="https://believermag.com/wunderlich/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this poem</a><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; text-align: start;"> by Mark Wunderlich, appropriately titled “Wunderlich.”</span></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">I am not sure about how this has turned out. It was hard explaining my name - to many associations popped up and I had to sieve through. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Do let me know your views. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: black; text-align: left;"></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBb8Bf2hHXu0bo4Af8LRUXxlqef-f6MBkqJ1Utx3tNgaBj2ViOaSxz4tlRFTYMJGT3QrcR-0FzAVxp9LJdVvvmXFKaA7Z_ArIHTrZltb_n3lxyxl8ncbSd_1zi3MSi2AoSIUTANx_0F7k/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBb8Bf2hHXu0bo4Af8LRUXxlqef-f6MBkqJ1Utx3tNgaBj2ViOaSxz4tlRFTYMJGT3QrcR-0FzAVxp9LJdVvvmXFKaA7Z_ArIHTrZltb_n3lxyxl8ncbSd_1zi3MSi2AoSIUTANx_0F7k/w200-h49/Untitled-1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-35570632984440850522021-04-13T21:49:00.007+04:002022-01-02T22:20:57.300+04:00Day 11 - K (A to Z Challenge) and Day 13 - Taking to the Streets (Napowrimo)<p> <b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Day 11 AtoZ Challenge</b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 11. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0m461ONw07lpMGOCR-7IjrP5vuNt1JSiHxBRdsjnX1onxSMhNl2KFEHyppkXRctWLcWJScz9sqzvj5HHhU4YMA2VUxg8Kbj1S43hTf7QUEREv8q0i1qmF6iqTVJiJvwV9LekW8heOEc8/s2048/K+-+sml.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="K-AtoZChallenge-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0m461ONw07lpMGOCR-7IjrP5vuNt1JSiHxBRdsjnX1onxSMhNl2KFEHyppkXRctWLcWJScz9sqzvj5HHhU4YMA2VUxg8Kbj1S43hTf7QUEREv8q0i1qmF6iqTVJiJvwV9LekW8heOEc8/w480-h640/K+-+sml.jpg" title="K-AtoZChallenge-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: start;">All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></span></span></span></span></p><div></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: black; text-align: left;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: black; text-align: left;">Day 13 Napowrimo</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: News Cycle; font-size: large;">Dubai 2023 will see driverless taxis
on the road<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: News Cycle; font-size: large;">Every man, woman and children can
have the safest transport<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: News Cycle; font-size: large;">Conveyed the Newspaper<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: News Cycle; font-size: large;">While none seemed to take it in<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: News Cycle; font-size: large;">One man got all disturbed<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: News Cycle; font-size: large;">He voiced some unyielding statements<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: News Cycle; font-size: large;">The newspaper set aside a space to
his contentment—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: News Cycle; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: News Cycle; font-size: large;">The report read—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: News Cycle; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Satisfy, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: black; text-align: left;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Napowrimo Prompt:</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Today’s prompt comes from the Instagram account of </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sundresspublications/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5f79b4; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sundress Publications</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">, which posts a writing prompt every day, all year long. This one is short and sweet: write a poem in the form of a news article you wish would come out tomorrow.</span></span></i></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I came across a news in today's newspaper about driverless taxis to be launched in 2023. Taking that as a start imagined a concerned layman who fears, maybe even bordering on extremity, the increased involvement of AI and the gadgets in our daily life and how he may react to it. A funny take, my attempt.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">These prompts are actually pushing the limits and expanding our arena nudging us out of our comfort zone. Thanks to Napowrimo.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Do let me know your views. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: black; text-align: left;"></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBb8Bf2hHXu0bo4Af8LRUXxlqef-f6MBkqJ1Utx3tNgaBj2ViOaSxz4tlRFTYMJGT3QrcR-0FzAVxp9LJdVvvmXFKaA7Z_ArIHTrZltb_n3lxyxl8ncbSd_1zi3MSi2AoSIUTANx_0F7k/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBb8Bf2hHXu0bo4Af8LRUXxlqef-f6MBkqJ1Utx3tNgaBj2ViOaSxz4tlRFTYMJGT3QrcR-0FzAVxp9LJdVvvmXFKaA7Z_ArIHTrZltb_n3lxyxl8ncbSd_1zi3MSi2AoSIUTANx_0F7k/w200-h49/Untitled-1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div><br /></div></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2317736372112122439.post-44854195427878290242021-04-12T12:29:00.007+04:002022-01-02T22:18:57.224+04:00Day 10 - J (AtoZ Challenge) and Day 12 - A Happy Indolent Home (Napowrimo)<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Day 10 AtoZ Challenge</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 10. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqYS02lsvZe3texQj555uv3CFtEuAqd5A4xY-2Q0bp2RJ6WM7ok_Gp5wX5w69Y1btCOAYD61S0QsJBccl9Pt6deKPX5spY3E7yJNGjkmEJs9UpcKDDpCimCABz5ht8JLIZaqVmFeXoq-M/s2048/J.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="J-AtoZChallenge-HuesnShades" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqYS02lsvZe3texQj555uv3CFtEuAqd5A4xY-2Q0bp2RJ6WM7ok_Gp5wX5w69Y1btCOAYD61S0QsJBccl9Pt6deKPX5spY3E7yJNGjkmEJs9UpcKDDpCimCABz5ht8JLIZaqVmFeXoq-M/w480-h640/J.jpg" title="J-AtoZChallenge-HuesnShades" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#AtoZchallenge</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: start;">All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.</span></span></span><div><div style="text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: black; text-align: left;">Day 12 Napowrimo</b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">The afternoon whispered secrets<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">Through the dappled light <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">That danced across the cement floor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Satisfy; font-size: large;">Cracked and in need of repair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Satisfy",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Satisfy",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.......</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">rest
of the poem has been removed to facilitate for future submission. Thank you for
visiting.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Do let me know your views. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.</span></p></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">PS : This post is posted as part of <a href="https://www.theblogchatter.com/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d30d0d;">BlogchatterA2Z 2021</span></a> challenge.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April <span style="color: #db1414;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo2021</a></span></span></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ps: do check out my works on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dee.huesnshades/" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBb8Bf2hHXu0bo4Af8LRUXxlqef-f6MBkqJ1Utx3tNgaBj2ViOaSxz4tlRFTYMJGT3QrcR-0FzAVxp9LJdVvvmXFKaA7Z_ArIHTrZltb_n3lxyxl8ncbSd_1zi3MSi2AoSIUTANx_0F7k/s3597/Untitled-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="3597" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBb8Bf2hHXu0bo4Af8LRUXxlqef-f6MBkqJ1Utx3tNgaBj2ViOaSxz4tlRFTYMJGT3QrcR-0FzAVxp9LJdVvvmXFKaA7Z_ArIHTrZltb_n3lxyxl8ncbSd_1zi3MSi2AoSIUTANx_0F7k/w200-h49/Untitled-1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /></div></div></div>Deepa Gopalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11120735937767070980noreply@blogger.com7