The Bangalore Co.

  

     

What do i appreciate about Bangalore as a city? What would i like it to be known for? 

Especially when i ve been asked to brand it! For my illustration course, i decided to identify bangalore as a city recognised for its performing arts.  This would mean, creating a mock up for a new face or identity for Bangalore as a contemporary, cosmopolitain city and to visually interpret the term 'contemporary' with relation to the arts and to the present ways of life in Bangalore. 

Creating contrast between the traditional and modern was hard, especially when the arts are moving toward contemporarising the old. Bangalore is moving towards constructing a cross cultural platform where it shares, takes inspiration, exchanges at a global level hence it was difficult to identify the new cultural symbols that would lend themselves to the city the country and internationally. Point being : i need time to do more research :)

Stuff i was looking at :

Art and the city

Influence of the Attakkalari

IT influx and how it affected culture

Students and various exchanges

Bangalore as a contemporary, new city

Reinventing / re-interpreting tradition and folk

Bangalore as an international / cross cultural space

Concerts / Jazz / Blues / Rock / traditional / folk  

Contemporary dance and theatre 

Ecologically Mindless - An editorial illustration

Ecologically Mindless (excerpt)

"The flush toilet and the sewage system - always believed embodied personal hygiene and environmental cleanliness - are a part of the environmental problem and not the solution. This technology is quite simply ecologically mindless. 

This heavy use of surface water is leading to growing conflicts between urban and rural users and also to overexploitation.

This sewage, incidentally, comes from the flush toilets of the rich, not the poor."

Uditi illustrated for the same article :) heres what she did!

Friends in under fifteen :)

Acrylics and greys markers tht i found lying around in a box :) 

This was a quickie ;) 15 minutes,  like a stress buster. I've gotten addicted to drawing faces!

Wasted Opportunities - The Park

"Caricatures are rough truth"

Radhika

Uditi :)

will start colouring them shortly..

wazir

Ashwin

Cutlet #2!

faces pt2

mixed media on paper

The One Frame Cartoons

 

sorry for the scan.. but more trophies to come :)

i'm selling!

if you would like any other works from the selection on my blog contact me at whizzpopper@rediffmail.com

:)

hampi

family

"family"

mural 7 ft something, acrylic, on my bedroom door

The first cover/ poster for Cutlet: School- news- thing... working around things lost and found - attitudes - identity - involvement - expression.

blue

Sar - Pugal, Rajasthan : a travelogue

Sar : A formation of land caused by rivulets of water that converge into a catchment area. This area over time becomes rich and fertile but hard to access and cultivate using primitive tools for agriculture.

the initial map to chalk out our areas of interest
and to articulate our lines of inquiry.

I curse myself everytime i head out anywhere without my sketch book and most of the times its sheer laziness. The thought of removing things and packing them back in and those materials and things and there's only so much i can do if i'm living out of my suitcase. 

But there's a certain trick and charm in that as well and i discovered that this time. A nomadic sort of being in a way and sight + sound as provocation to record. The desert just capacitates you in a way. I let my camera be my tourist and my diary took over everything else.

faces

acrylics and pen on paper photoinks on paper


watercolours on paper

photo inks on paper