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o Modeling in Clay
o Carving your dreams
Holding a piece of clay, modeling it in to a shape is so natural
to most children; but when we grow up, we loose the instinct.
When I walked in to the Sculpture Department at
the Art School in Chandigarh, I saw all these wonderful shapes and
human figures created by hand in different materials, I knew right
away that this was for my life. Then there was no stopping.
I re-discoverd the clay. I was so fascinated by
the facility soft red clay offered that I forgot everything else.
I lived in small room, still arranged a bag of wet clay for me to
work with.
During the next holidays, I went back to my village
found a piece of dark wood, borrowed the carpentry tools from my
father and carved my first figure in wood. I rubbed it with the
sand-paper, polished it. Before I could stop this semi-abstract
female figure of about 20 inches in height was sitting there before
my eyes. I can’t explain here how excited I was and how satisfying
it was to be able to create this slender figure from a piece of
wood. To fire my enthusiasm further, it was purchased by the Chandigarh
museum within few weeks of making it.
After that I modeled full size clay figures, cast
them plaster-of-Paris or in coloured concrete. I carved several
pieces in wood, and in stone what ever I could find,It was a time
when I would start carving stone/wood from the moment I woke up
and until I dropped into bed late at night. My neighbors were furious
but I continued.
Later when I started to experiment with other
materials, such as steel, aluminium, basic idea of making objects
kept giving a lot of delight.
I still continue the activity some times making
just simple objects for daily use, as it was always done in the
village by the simple people. I am one of them still.
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