Collaborating on mall installations of Cholamandal artist Jacob
Jan 24th 2020 After our enriching and interesting experience of doing our annual exhibition at the Cholamandal Artists' Village earlier in the month, there was an interesting request from Jacob Jebaraj, the Cholamandal artist. He was participating in the Madras Art Guild's Connecting Communities Through Art exhibition at VR Mall, with three installations that used discarded material for the most part. His installations were ready, and would we care to add fresh material and bring in the essence of Ikebana into these pieces? Our member Sathya G, who resides at Cholamandal, was the coordinator for this whole project. VR Mall is a busy mall in the Anna Nagar side of town, and they had given us permission to work on these installations only after 830 pm! So it was that Sathya, Mrs Jacob and Ambika set off from the ECR side at 630pm and reached the venue after a maddeningly slow and tortuous ride at 845 in the evening. They were armed with long-lasting flowers like...