Written by Pallavi Chattopadhyay |Published: March 25, 2019 12:51:58 am
The Craftsmen’s Messiah
Kachru recalls how Shah travelled to Tamil Nadu, while at NID, to work with potters and villagers who made terracotta horses for their guardian deity, Ayannar. He had a group of the life-size horses sent to the campus that stand even today.
When former National Crafts Museum director and art and cultural historian Jyotindra Jain joined hands with the veteran artist Haku Shah to co-author the book Temple Tents for Goddesses in Gujarat, India, in German, in 1982, he got a refreshing insight into what it was like to work with his close friend, who passed away last week at the age of 85 in Ahmedabad. As they set about on a journey to chronicle folk deities of Gujarat painted on textile pieces in kalamkari style, which were created by the Vaghari community for the scheduled caste, they captured the many dyes used for the process, and the sacrifices, mythology and rituals attached to them. These textiles, many of them 10 to 15 feet tall, were soon used by the some of the scheduled caste communities to create tent-like temporary enclosures to invoke their goddess.
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