Beautiful Porcelain Wares

I found this beautiful piece at

http://spluch.blogspot.com/

Feast for the eyes too :-)

The Moplah .

Here is the painting of 'The Maplah'. It is done in oil on board.The moplahs of 'malabar are muslims who are the descendents of the Arab traders who came to malabar coast during 9th cen taking advantage of the 'fast trade routes' they discovered using the monsoon winds. They were welcomed by the Samoothiripaad(Zamorin-anglicised) for the revenue they brought.The arabs were given liberal concessions ,and they married local women.The Moplahs of today are the offsprings of this mixed race.They also purchased children from lower castes-mainly fishercommunity(mukkuvan) to convert to Islam and use in their boats.(read some where that zamorin had made it compulsory that one child from each mukkuvan family should be given for convertion to Islam !!) Here is a moplah with his skull cap ,trade mark scarf(which he would spread on the ground for 'namaz'.and the beedi tucked behind his ears.This is the moplah gentleman who used to run the friendly neighbourhood 'chaya kada' at Koothuparamba.:-)

Can there be multiple meanings to art?

"But, more fundamentally, can an articulate artist simply be wrong or even clueless about what his or her work conveys? And if so, does the artist's expressed intention trump the viewer's interpretation of the work?" "Recently I interviewed an emerging Middle Eastern, New York-based artist about some really exciting conceptual photography that she will be exhibiting in the Middle East this spring. I had been an admirer and supporter of her art for years and was particularly drawn to her current series, which, I argued in a few reviews, beautifully and insightfully illuminated important issues pertaining to older women's overlooked and undervalued status in western society. After thinking, writing and talking about her work so often, I finally had the opportunity to discuss it with her and discovered that we not only had completely different interpretations of her art and its message, but we have opposing ideas about what makes her work both beautiful and interesting." Simply put, her meaning was lost in translation for me. She was passionately trying to make what I considered to be a relatively outdated and unimaginative statement, and I mistakenly heard refreshing and enlightening poetry. That was Ana Finel Honigman in 'Gaurdian Blog on art'

On Malayinkeezhu.

one side of the hill on which we were standing another ugly view(rock quarried by blasting) Malayinkeezhu is a suburb of Trivandrum.Some 10km away from the city.'Malayinkeezhu'means 'at the base of the mountain in malayalam.It is a beautiful place-all hills and large rocks.Green ,with pretty trees. Hardly any coconut trees where we went :-).

At the painting workshop at Malayinkeezhu.

successful effort

Kannan and Sundarimom.new born baby elephant struggles up to his mom.

On Soorya !!!

On "ponpulari" of 19th Jan on Soorya Television's morning programme.