Colors

This bottle is made by great grandmother “Biji ” Swaran Kaur , before her marriage somewhere in 1935-36, in her parental home village “Pur Hiran “, Jalandhar, Punjab. It is a valuable possession that has been handed down from generation to generation. It represents a family tree. An arrangement of small toys and figurines in a vintage glass bottle made good 82 yrs back! There is a doll for each member of the family.

During those times girls were taught to acquire some skills like learning embroidery, knitting, colourful naala string making, soft cloth toys like “gudia” doll, cloth balls known as “Khuddo” , cooking paintings, bamboo basket known as “chabba” to keep rotis, parathas (today casserole) , jute mat durries, rajai quilt…,similarly such show items bottle to display their skills .This used to be the proud part of their dowry! to impress the would be in- laws !!

Note , This beautiful bottle needs focus and patience to systematically arrange and make just through a small opening on the top!

Also birds, flowers and plants are shown which tells the respect of nature and Eco friendly living. If you note minutely the figurines are well dressed and wearing jewellery, costumes which indicates taste and culture of that period. The colors on the plastic dolls have faded and the silver on the pearls almost look rusty which adds to the vintage look that is visible through the cloudy glass bottle.

Week 14

We worked on making the documentation video along with the rest of our submission. In the video we explained the themes that were common between the movies that we were told to watch . We also showed scenes from the movies were the objects and symbols that the movies revolved around were shown.

Week 13

We held discussions within our group and decided that we could also have the memzine as a small part of our magazine. So I started working on the poster for the magazine.

Week 15

This was my final display for review week.

Week 14

When i got my work reviewed from maam she mentioned that my charachters needed more finishing touches.

Week 13

We worked on our final presentation and edited a seven minute documentation that showed all activitites taht we conducted with the students.

Week 12

We conducted classes with a mall batch of students from Don Bosco shelter over a week. Special thanks to Father Rudolph who gave us this oppurtunity.

Week 11

By this time we started confirming which NGO or school would like to work with us. It was great learning process. A lot of timings dint match and compromises were made. At the end we found Don Bosco Shelter where we held five sessions of two hours each.

Week 14

This was my final submission for imaging

Week 13

I finished most of my work but when i got it reviewed I realized that a lot of changes were needed to be made.

I had to make the rice background lighter and the black background darker and change the shape of the fish.