tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294804442024-03-18T02:46:50.614-07:00Across the UniverseHriday Mahi AarasiShilo Shiv Sulemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00013373937930212340noreply@blogger.comBlogger285125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29480444.post-22486568314974304702017-10-17T12:30:00.000-07:002017-10-17T12:30:01.385-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Shilo Shiv Sulemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00013373937930212340noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29480444.post-73965041975145092972013-12-13T14:05:00.004-08:002013-12-15T11:15:55.255-08:00The Dream Universe of the Dewarists<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>The Dewarists Stage at the NH7 Weekender, Pune</i></div>
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<i>Mapmaking Miniature Multiverses where stars hang low and hot air baloons blink their eyes at you. Giant metal 3d animal constellations, and an LED screen projecting star studded skies.</i><br />
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Earlier this year, the lovely people at OML decided to take a new approach to Art at a Music festival. Rather than having installations (like my Kabootar last year), what if each stage became a canvas for a different artist? There was <a href="https://www.facebook.com/daku.onefivesix">Daku</a> , <a href="http://bombayduckdesigns.com/">Sameer Kulavoor</a>, <a href="http://www.vaispace.com/">Vaibhavi Kowshik</a> and me. I got to do two stages- The Dewarists Arena, and it's sweet little hipster offshoot- The Other Stage.<br />
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My mother <a href="http://facebook.com/nilofersuleman">Nilofer Suleman</a> started her journey into art as a Cartographer. She used to recreate these old Columbus era maps, and as a child, I'd spend hours watching her pour over them, creating rivers and mountains of ink with her fingers. </div>
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I think it's really here that both my fascination with travel and mapmaking began. And while her maps (and now her art) is very much inspired by the real world, and real streets, my maps were miniature magical multiverses, rooted only in the sky dome of the imagination. </div>
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And so, I began to weave the <i>Dream Universe of the Dewarists.</i> The Dewarists is a show by Babble Fish productions that brings together musicians and artists from across the world to collaboratively create as they travel to different locations across India. Each episode is shot in a landmark building in a different inspired location, and for me that became the starting point of inspiration. I wanted to put down all these spaces that the Dewarists travelled to into one cohesive map. </div>
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<i>Here it is- the dream universe of the Dewarists, explained:</i></div>
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Capitol Cinema, Mumbai </div>
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Apart from the building itself, it became about Bombay, the stones that crown Marine drive, the big red BEST buses.</div>
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Samode Palace, Rajasthan </div>
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While Anoushka Shankar's marking on the map didn't get a building, she became a shrine of her own, and like the video it's all inkspills and flowers. </div>
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Kaziranga was the next marking on the map, green layered tea terraces and forests and rhinos.</div>
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the green apple fields and misty castles and breweries of <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr9kw0-Z6WM">Scotland</a></i></div>
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<i>A Rose Compass</i></div>
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And that wasn't all. The larger idea was that behind this map of the Dewarists, would be animations of the sky that gave it a sense of movement and dynamism through the sets. </div>
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And so I created over 40 animations that Activ8Media could use to VJ with. Here are gif versions of some of the animations. It was a beauty, The sun rose over the stage, rain clouds gathered as Shankar Tucker's band sang "Baadal barse", hot air baloons blinked their eyes at you, and when the sun set, the moon rose, constellations formed in the sky and lighthouses helped you find your way through churning seas. </div>
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How much detail could I find an appreciate in the show and it's music? how much detail and inspiration could I find in the sky? Each exact constellation was mapped out, windows drawn in exact proportion and placement of each building, each form was layered and gilded in gold. Having never drawn building's before, love's labour shone through. And this wasn't all, there was also another stage (details of that coming soon) and a lounge (that we didn't end up doing). Here's more from the process- </div>
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I think of Humming. The smell of Oranges, your hands, piano keys, swaying.</div>
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The second I got back home, I was flown off like a sparrow to Bombay for '<i>A Summer's Day' </i>headlined by Norah Jones<i> </i>with a week to spare, an installation to create and a suitcase full of oversized flowers. </div>
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Uber special shoutout to Elena Periera who made all the flowers by hand, and Kirian Meili who came rushing in at midnight armed with staplers when I needed more flowers.<br />
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Also, behind every glowy installation is a group of happy boys and girls putting it up,<br />
Thank you Vijay Nair and Dhruv Jagasia. Also you, Dharam and Ishan and Francis and Arlene. You are all amazing!<br />
Ps- speaking of sunshine, I'm currently designing and drawing for an amazing app called Sunlight that reads your brainwaves while meditating and all kindsa crazy stuff. More on that later. x<!--3--><!--3--></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>'What we worship we shall become' </i>became a particularly important affirmation for me these last few months while travelling through the Kumbh. I once had a conversation in an old temple somewhere in the north with a Sadhu where I asked him "Why do men worship the goddesses on our walls, but rape the women in their homes?" and in his smokey haze he said to me "When you(and women) see your own divinity and strength, all else will follow". At that point in my life, I felt like that was a very convenient thing to say. But perhaps there's truth in this, instead of waiting for patriarchy to liberate me, I'm making an active effort to liberate myself and reclaim my right to my body, to public space and to spirituality. 'Fearless' is one step towards that.</span></div>
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Paintings walls in public spaces is an extremely symbolic way of reclaiming the streets, and being in Benaras- India's Hindu and Spiritual center, I felt like I wanted to leave my mark and message on the walls there. No permissions and buckets of paint, for 3 days I stood by the banks with some of the local kids jumping in to help.</span><br />
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While this wall was done without permission (save an OK from the Chaiwallah perched outside it), I was pleased to find that the tenants of that particular wall work with girls rights in particular.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Synchronistic. While painting this wall I also had a lot of interesting discussions/debates with locals there about women and violence in India.</span><br />
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Special Love and shoutouts to <a href="http://qito.co.uk/">Suki Zoe</a>, new friend and co-cosmic traveller through the Kumbh on diets of veggie juice and barfis, who has taken all these pictures (and many more)- more from her here - http://qito.co.uk/2013/02/06/shilo-shiv-suleman/</span><br />
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annnnd Avijit, who always carries my metaphorical and real ladders. Also special love to all the children in Benaras who painted with me, the parrot who sat beside me and more. Next time you're there- Go check out my wall near Vaatika Pizzeria at Assi ghat, on the same wall that says gangamahal ghat. :)</span><br />
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Shilo Shiv Sulemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00013373937930212340noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29480444.post-55641350048274331822013-04-27T06:45:00.001-07:002013-04-29T01:08:19.435-07:00Remember, Pi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">My journey from</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"> there continued onwards on Bike with my partner to the North of India on a rusty old enfield towards the Kumbh Mela over three days, and it's this ride that really turned out to be my super symbolic "fearless" test.<br />While we rode through rural U.P. I have never been as aware as I was on that bike of what I was wearing, how desolate the highway was, how many trucks and big cars full of men there were, how few women were on the streets and in the villages. To add to this test, our bike broke down on all three days that we were riding in U.P for hours at end.<br /><br />Suddenly we found ourselves in rural U.P, in the middle of hillbilly nowhere, with hungry eyes and claws staring at me in every mechanic shop, every dhaba and every chai stop. My first reaction was to add more layers onto my salwar-kameezed-winter clothed self. I wore a dupatta around my head, and every time we would stop I would avoid eye contact with all the staring men. My paranoia even went as far as a thought crossing my mind that I should make myself look "uglier" so that I attracted less attention.<br />I've lived in small town North India, and travelled extensively across villages in Kutch and Rajasthan while working, but this was the first time I had felt this kind of fear. In my head played articles about Rape in Haryana and U.P, thoughts about how "these people" are all repressed, and all sorts of judgments. I messaged a friend about my fear who replied saying "Remember Pi, the world reflects your fear, replace it with strength and that will be reflected too".<br /><br />And so I raised my head and faced the journey with greater strength as I would in my hometown Bangalore or in lala Goa. I became the tiger and the mirror. And to my surprise, a lot of the people who I wouldn't even have looked at in the eye but judged as creepers, were kind and full of love to us while we got our bike fixed, as more often than not has been the case when I've travelled through India. And yes, some of those stares were more lecherous, but my hiding wouldn't help the hundreds of women that would and should make their way across India on a bike.<br /><br />Fear, making ourselves "blend in" or a Wallflower is all counterproductive to the larger change we need to see. We need to face not only the 'tigers' in our societal boats, but also the tigers inside us. My calling rural men in UP "repressed" is the same as them calling me (a city girl) a slut.<br />This is not a time for judgement or divisions, but relearning and re-forming our ideas about men, women, sexuality and ourselves.<br /><i><br />"Remember Pi, the world reflects your fear, replace it with strength and that will be reflected too".</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Fearless started on a december afternoon as a spark of 2 posters I made for myself, and a conversation with </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=507379829&extragetparams=%7B%22group_id%22%3A0%7D" href="http://www.facebook.com/laila.vaziralli?group_id=0" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Laila Vaziralli</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"> of </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=196407833736299&extragetparams=%7B%22group_id%22%3A0%7D" href="http://www.facebook.com/Kitsch.Mandi?group_id=0" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Kitsch Mandi</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"> who fueled the flame.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">I was at the protests for Nirbhaya in Delhi following the gang rape, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">I was exhausted. I'd shared every media article on every horrifying rape story, had endless conversations with people about masculinities and gender roles. I felt helpless, but what I was most tired of was people telling me I needed to be afraid. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">I found myself afraid of taking buses, taking autos, taking any public transport. I was afraid of the streets, and I was afraid and deeply mistrustful of any man unfamiliar to me. And people would fuel that fear, they would tell me not to drive my own car home, not to wear anything too attractive, to not talk to strangers, to not be out at night. I was tired of hearing politicians have foot in mouth moments, I was tired of being afraid. And the media followed suit, with more fear mongering and sensationalism</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">I put up a poster on facebook to reaffirm this just to myself. I wanted to remind myself that I never asked for it, no matter how skimpy my clothes, or how late at night. This was the first poster I made. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Followed by this one, inspired by a night when me and some friends went out dancing in Sarees and were asked if we were prostitutes in one of Bangalore's biggest clubs, and it felt like regardless of whether I wore traditional indian clothing or a "miniskirt", my dancing would always </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">be looked at as enticement. I wanted to reaffirm for myself that I would keep on dancing because I danced for myself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Little did I know what was going to follow. Close to 300 posters and around 200 artists across India with exhibitions all around the country (and world) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"> It became a way for Artists across India and the world to reaffirm Fearlessness and Feminine Courage in a world that was looking rather bleak with floods of stories about how one could potentially get sexually h</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 18px;">arrassed and raped anytime and anywhere. And it's been beautiful. </span></span><br />
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and what's amazing to me is that apart from the posters being beautiful, so many of them came with long emails and stories, women who after seeing the posters felt like they needed to take action against people who had abused them, people who realized how contagious fear can be, discussions on what Indian-Culture is. It's become a growing movement of artists who are using their voices and social media to send out positive affirmations. Moreover, the campaign doesn't attempt to change the world as much as it attempts to change the self, and in that lies the truth. </div>
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In Delhi we were all over One Billion Rising: </div>
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saying something about the beauty of receiving. All I did was put out a small small request on facebook for posters, but what I received was SO much more glorious than anything I could have ever imagined or dreamt of. It's been humbling to see how many illustrators, non artists and men and women alike have come forward and contributed. I am grateful. I am grateful and yes, I am fearless. </div>
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One year since my INKtalk went up on TED.com and my life was suddenly flooded with just under a million new people. I remember that night, thinking - wow! how exciting, it'll probably get a few thousand views and It got 11,000 views in the first ten minutes.<br />
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Thank you INK, TED, Lakshmi, Raghava, Avijit, the Khoya team, Tank and Bear and everyone who has been part of this journey exploding across the universe. Love. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's been so long, too long since I wrote here, while my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/shilosuleman">facebook page</a> is very much alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">it's my birthday today (I turn 24) and I thought I should do some catching up in this little haven of mine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's been an amazing heart opening- few months. I spent twenty days mostly alone in Brazil where I found so much love, so much music and a family, I also lost all my money in my bank account to theft, but learnt a beautiful and valuable <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151104615292653&set=a.10150435856497653.353237.12053182652&type=3&src=http%3A%2F%2Fsphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-ak-prn1%2F540156_10151104615292653_1272654850_n.jpg&size=900%2C600">Lesson</a> in Kindness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.98611068725586px; text-align: left;">"When I’m drawing I feel a little closer to the way birds navigate when flying, or to hares finding shelter when pursued, or to fish knowing where to spawn, or trees finding a way to the light, or bees constructing their cells. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.98611068725586px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.98611068725586px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.98611068725586px; text-align: left;">I’m aware of a distant, silent company. Almost as distant as the stars. Company nevertheless. Not because we are in the same universe, but because we are involved – each </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 17.98611068725586px; text-align: left;">according to his own mode – in a comparable manner of searching.<br /><br />Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself. “<br /><br />- John Berger</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> where I found total peace in Ritual, <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.555556297302246px; text-align: left;">where we learnt how to make traditional shadow puppets from a Pullavar (priest) who became our Guru over the last few days.His family has done this for a thousand years or more. So much beauty in Ritual. Fire, sound, conchshell, lights and prayer. Snake tongue, Animal sacrifices, Gods of the forest. </span></span></div>
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A friend Smriti was talking to us the other day about one's life as being a spiral, you start at a source and move outwards from that source, make a full cycle around and find yourself back at a parallel point on the same line. It's the same place, the same lesson to be learnt but something has changed. And onwards and onwards, we find ourselves back at the same place in a cycle but having learnt more and expanded outwards.</div>
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All of last year was an internal cycle, looking inwards, drawing all the time, working on Khoya and INK, growing and thinking and changing and meditating. A work Sanyaas of sorts. I didn't freelance, money and everything else became irrelevant. I was creating Inner worlds and I was happy. and chapters were coming to an end I graduated from Srishti after 5 years at the top of my class as Valedictorian, and released Khoya into the world.</div>
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All the talks on Khoya are exciting, but I feel I need to move on before I start to feel like a broken record, even if it's only to Khoya 2. There are new valleys to explore, new interactions to create and other universes within the narrative to paint and see and be before I become into a crystal of Childhood and Magic. These are phases and circles in the spiral. I was much older when I was younger, darker, scratchier, more instinctive but also sadder, affirming negative emotions in my life until it came to a total crescendo of near madness and fear. </div>
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I was reborn as a child, rediscovered magic and love. But now I feel like I've grown up again and this time round perhaps it's not so bad. Khoya 2 is going to be an exploration of this growth, and newer realizations. A new wave in the spiral. Relatively older and ready to learn again without expectation.</div>
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I need to go back to the Source, to re-boot and refresh myself. Find what it is that made me glow first before I become crystalline. </div>
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PS- Ironically, this post was saved as a draft for months with all the pictures and videos in but no words: A Microdocumentary about my life and connections which was so beautifully shot by Ben Henretig of Microdocs, the launching of myself as a brand of illustrated goodies and more. But instead, it's turned into an introspection on innerworlds and outerworlds. :) Perhaps this was meant to happen after all.<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">If you're ever there catching a train- Go say hi to my female coolie, 15 feet tall and beautiful armed with purple suitcase and all. This was done in just 2 days and I really want to do more BIG walls in public spaces now. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Possibly the greatest truth revealed to me this year, is this. Ask and you shall receive. Every single opportunity that has crossed my life has been driven by some desire to Create something. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A few weeks ago, when I was in Bali: I watched a shadow puppet performance and thought it was completely beautiful. I decided that I wanted to work with shadow puppeteers this year, somehow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">And magically, when I got back to Bangalore, <a href="http://evanhastings.blogspot.in/">someone</a> I'd known for quite a bit said he's working with puppeteers in Kerala! Going there in September. *excited*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This much is true. This article, I’m told is about me. And all the success and love I have found by being me. But what’s ironic is that perhaps the realization that brought all of it to me was ‘<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am You</em>’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am You. I see myself in everything that shimmers, every whispered love song, every flower that gently finds its way to the ground. I travel in gardens and bedrooms,around corners, through doorways, up stairs, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heroes; perceived, remembered, imagined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For all my growing up years, my angsty teens, I tried to separate myself from you. I said I was a rebel, robed in black, scribbling poetry into my skin while watching raindrops from a distance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">‘<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Redness of my Beloved is such,</em></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I went out in search of Red, and became Red myself</em>‘</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and this is how it happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was brought up primarily by my mother, also an artist. And so our relationship was set in pigment and pixel. Perhaps the greatest realization for both of us has been that Art and Illustration and the creation of beautiful things wasn’t a process that cuts people off, but brings people in. ‘I am you’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am not the ‘You’ that chose a road well traversed, I am not the ‘You’ that didn’t stand up for beliefs, I am not the ‘You’ that chose corporate jobs and black suits. I am the ‘You’ that fell in love, the ‘You’ that remembers and lives the innocence of childhood, the ‘You’ that dreams and believes that these dreams can be transformed into a reality. The child, the dreamer, the mother, the goddess, the lover and in all these manifestations we are one. Cyclic and Moon-drawn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I started travelling when I was 16, perhaps more fearless then than I am now, and on those countless train journeys sitting by the door of the train I learnt (and keep learning) that perhaps the most important thing is to trust. Trust that you are protected, trust in your own strength, trust that this strength will guide you, that your feet (adorned with anklets and colour) are strong and will not slip, and trust enough to “Let the Beauty of What you Love be what you Do”.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Trust those doodles, those songs hummed in the shower, that poetry scribbled onto your skin, all the drama, because it’s in those that one’s love sometimes lies, in those doodles an artists, that humming a singer, a poet and an actor.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">When I was a little girl, me and my friends would spend hours creating beautiful imaginary kingdoms that somehow we could both see. Towers and creatures and ships that we both inhabited. Both shared without doubt.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">I sometimes feel like I chose to illustrate so I didn't have to stop creating and sharing worlds. :) Sometimes when I'm drawing, I feel almost like I'm whipped away into towers where lovers are united, or forests where crows speak and spat out a few hours later by these watercolours wonderlands.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17px;">It's been super fun working with kids again! The last time I did full on workshops was when I was 16.</span></span><br />
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This month I designed for the TED Auditions this month in Bangalore. Giant Panels of Red Sarees with thick gold embroidered patterns and giant illustrated panels on silk draped around. The Idea was to bring alive the essence of the Indian Archetypes in the TED quest- they were out auditioning looking for the sage, the prodigy, the artist, the storyteller, the inventor, the performer. And these panels represented the Indian versions of those archetypes.</div>
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It's always a surprise designing a stage. (This is only my second so far) and it's such a trip seeing small drawings on your screen turn into GIANT sets overnight. Big thanks to Cigma Events, that does all the production and setting up of these big stages! To INKtalks for bringing the whole event together and organizing everything and more and more. :) Though I didn't get to speak on this stage, my partner did! :) </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">truth be told, it's been a bit of a war between posting work on my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/shilosuleman">facebook page</a> and on my blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the facebook page becomes easier to quickly put up stuff as it's happening and get instant reactions as well, but this space has a silence that I love and started to miss too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So now I'm back, and promise to be back more often as well. Here's a bit of the backlog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The illustration above is from a book I'm working on (very slowly) on Yoga positions and chakra flows. (and a may it inspire you to stretch)</span></div>
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River Running to the sea. This one is an ollllld one from Pampasutra(look into the belly of this blog and you'll see more images from that book), the River of Hampi.<br />
I hear now that the Bazaar of Hampi bustling and alive with gypsies selling silver and mirrors has now been torn down to be replaced with malls and theme parks. I only hope this stops.<br />
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My last week has been beautifully flooded thanks to the INK talk going on ted.com.<br />
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<i>"The Earth laughs in flowers"</i> is an old favourite by Ee cummings. It's been whispered and scribbled in notebooks for the longest time and this December, while taking a digital detox of sorts in Goa, I found myself back to nothing but a paper and the same watercolours that have be friended me for over 5 years. Infact I think I want to spend a large part of this year just painting again. So if you know anyone who you think would be interested in an exhibition, let me know :)<br />
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Today at 23 years old on 22022012 my talk is out on TED.com on the stage that I designed!!</div>
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Forget stomach, my entire body has been taken over by big beautiful butterflies and I am a flutter.</div>
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I started my journey with Khoya in search of magic, and this magic found me.</div>
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Thank you TED, Thank you all of the <a href="http://inktalks.com/">INK team </a>and Lakshmi, Shanna, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/nilofersuleman">Nilofer</a>, Avijit, Gayatri, <a href="http://soundcloud.com/arfaaz">Arfaaz</a>, <a href="http://pinterest.com/tankstar/the-jorgits-the-end-of-winter/">Anders</a>, <a href="http://www.inkoniq.com/">Inkoniq</a> and everyone else that's part of the big Khoya journey.<br />
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<b>I designed this stage</b> over 3 months while working on <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/khoya-an-interactive-fantasy/id491690820?mt=8">Khoya</a> for the <a href="http://inktalks.com/">INK conference</a> this year in Jaipur. As their featured artist of the year, the stage, the book and the entire conference became my canvas, a fertile bed upon which my dreams could take root.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Ofcourse, I had never designed a stage before. But we all start somewhere!</span></i></div>
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and I started here. A lightbulb, a meticulous cutout in paper, and an idea. </div>
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An intricate web of laser cutouts, layers in wood and mdf all hung and studded across the sky with a back projection with constantly changing backdrops. There would not be a moment of static on my stage, the cutouts were silhouetted by two large animations, and over the span of four days, the colours changed, forests were born, clouds gathered and rained upon it, giant butteflies took over the stage and constellations twinkled.</div>
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and quite by accident or fate, while watching it I would see beautiful coincidences, as Julie Taymor, director of Frida and Across the Universe (the namesake to this blog) spoke about a setting sun and the <b>Source </b>of all Inspiration, a sun rose over her head. There she was, source of my inspiration talking about her source on my stage. Tears rose and spilled over.</div>
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I count my lucky stars that I can make a living doing things like painting buses.<br />
I was chosen as one of 5 artists from India along with 5 from Germany to work on a Street Art Project in Bangalore curated by Archana Prasad and Robert. It's called Urban AvantGarde Bangalore and we're going to be painting all kinds of wonders around the city this week! Next in line is painting an old train station here which I'm quite excited about.<br />
One of the many dreams I've harnessed since I was a wee girl was to paint a bus! At one point I was pretty certain I wanted to live in a bus and replace all the seats with a giant bed!<br />
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Such lovely interactions with the local workshop guys there, one of whome came to me and said 'yeh to sukoon ka kaam hai' (this is a job of great peace and contentment). And it is.<br />
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My mother <a href="http://www.facebook.com/nilofersuleman">Nilofer Suleman</a> (illustrated by me above) started her artistic journey as a cartographer, and perhaps that's where my journey began too. As a child I'd spend hours watching her pour over those maps and each word would become a gateway into a world full of pirates and shipwrecks and images that lurk in my imagination.</div>
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Here we are when I was little. And as the source of my river and the tree of my apples, on her birthday here is some of her work below: and you can see more here: http://www.facebook.com/nilofersuleman</div>
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And my two <a href="http://adivarekar.in/v2/">beautiful and best friends</a>, depicted in the portrait above proved exactly this when they slipped into a marriage quietly and gracefully, without any show and pomp. As if they had slid from one room to another, with no change of costume. A simple and sacred thing. Letting Love be. </div>
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In other forms of Love, the cd I designed for Jai Uttal, 'Queen of Hearts', a collection of songs for Radha and Krishna was sent across the seven seas to me a while ago. Here's a picture of what it ended up looking like.<br />
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I also turned 23 on the 1st of this month, and spent the day alone with Rose wine and Vincent's thick beautiful blues at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam where I went roaming post the<a href="http://www.dld-conference.com/speakers/art-design/shilo-shiv-suleman_aid_3025.html"> DLD conference</a> with my <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfms6SEYkWjD4p6p0ceuVFl5lq74Gh5y8FHnoWYNsbhTHLfrNxk7dg0xLhIoeqrfrrBC3nnJpbSkvEZhj2so5ehYDixV1lUU1srfghXhfRZCGa2fZoIV4zYK5SkP2Kz2mPvAOfg/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-06-20+at+4.11.03+PM.png">Beloved</a>. Be loved. Be. Love.</div>
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We did Munich, Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin as part of a <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/khoya-an-interactive-fantasy/id491690820?mt=8">Khoya</a> tour of sorts and it was all that I dreamt of. More revelations and relics from the trip in a post that will soon follow. :) </div>
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