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An Indivisible Margin Of Error
Dhurv Jani
In 1832 Professor James P Fielding wrote a story about two itinerant travellers, who claimed to have stumbled upon the ninth observatory of Matsyapur. This was a remarkable claim, Because it anchored back to a fabled gathering of astronomers at Matsyapur. A gathering whose purpose was to deliberate one of the causes of an inscrutable error that had played the celestial observations. In this search for this error they decided to interrogate the universe by constructing nine observatories, each to a different scale and each I don’t with instruments of cosmic inquiry. The unwavering quantum they searched for was to be called: truti. A measure, so minute that they believed it to be a building block of the universe itself. Five of the nine observation were hidden amidst the yatras of Maharaja Jai Singh‘s creations, three others book plundered and now lie in decay. Only one remains unrecorded, the ninth and the most Spectacular of all. It is this observation tree that the two travellers told fielding about. It is this observation tree that we seek to recreate, in a series of interactive vignettes played across scales of endless reception.
#Software #Aesthetic #Beaut #DhurvJani #VirtualReality #IndianAesthetic #OldVsNew #WhenIsSpace #JawaharKalaKendra #Jaipur #JaipurDiaries #JaipurJournal #Rajasthan #India #Wanderer #Wanderlust #Travel #TravelDiaries #Travelogue (at JKK-Jaipur, Jawahar Kala Kendra)
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Nav/Laya - A Confluence
The greatest aspect of Jaipur is that its map prepared before constructing the city and the city was constructed as per the map… Roads cut each other on the same angles… The main road from the east to west is 111 feet wide and 2 miles and 40 yards long. Three wide roads intersect it. A wide Road originates from the palace gates known as Tripolia gate. This Road divides the town situated between the second and the third major roads. Thus nine rhombuses have been formed. In Jaipur it is known as Chaukori. The nine rhombuses have been kept as a symbol of nine treasures of Kuber, The gold of affluence. The north western end has been merged in the Amer mountains. Hence eight rhombuses have been made with oblong area; one has been built in its South, three have been made equal actually do in the east. Rajendra Shankar Bhatt- Sawai Jai Singh 1972.
Nav/Laya is it juxtaposition of the work of Abin design studio with Navagraha mandala - original Jaipur city plan and the base of Correa’s Jawahar Kala Kendra. While ‘nav’ represents the absolute (nine), ‘laya’ is both dissolution and merging, morphing in its meaning with context. The installation is aligned with the twist that Correa uses to mimic the deviation in Jaipur’s plan. In the pavilion, people inhabit the space in-between the stable grid of pathways and the transforming canopies.
#JaipurCurated #Architecture #Planning #Divided #Grids #NavagrahaMandala #IndianAesthetic #Astrology #Beaut #Canopy #Pavilion #Delightful #NavLaya #AbinDesignStudio #WhereIsSpace #Curation #JawaharKalaKendra #Jaipur #JaipurDiaries #JaipurJournal #Rajasthan #India #Wanderer #Wanderlust #Travel #Travelogue #TravelDiaries (at JKK-Jaipur, Jawahar Kala Kendra)
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Five Gardens
Samir Raut
Behold! Here are new trees, new leaves, new branches new flowers, new beautiful parrots sit on them. New bees humming and birds are singing their tunes. There a new peacocks, parrots, chakoras. New koel is going and producing new notes. Sawai Jaisaha Maharaj Mukatmani has his Jainivas Garden with perennial spring reining therein. There are many temples here… There are wells step wells in Gardens, the Mansagar is overflowing with the river is flowing swiftly. (from a poem by Girdhari- Bhojanasara, 1739)
Five Gardens emerges from studies of the several house plans. Material here is explored for both structure and details. The pavilion/house reveals its self to the surrounding landscape, flora and phone out in normal assemblies. The project intimately plays with economy of material, pleasure of craft and lightness of structure. While the pavilion seamlessly connects the outside with the inside, it leads itself to create personalised spaces within its self.
#OldAndNew #Approach #Beaut #FiveGardens #Personalised #OutsideAndInside #Pavilion #Architecture #MaterialExploration #Beaut #IndianAesthetic #BringTheOutsideInside #SamirRaut #Architect #WhereIsSpace #Exhibit #JawaharKalaKendra #Jaipur #JaipurDiaries #JaipurJournal #Rajasthan #India #Wanderer #Wanderlust #Travel #Travelogue #TravelDiaries (at JKK-Jaipur, Jawahar Kala Kendra)
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The Malleability of all things Solid
Note Book Series
M. Pravat
Lives are shaped by the built environments that we inhabit. And as much as humans occupy architectural spaces, architecture also occupies a unique place in human sensibilities. Images and materials are central to the idea of space and form. This work explores the configuring of images and material to words imagining newer ideas of space.
The space of architecture is a project that delves into architects notebooks, elevation, plans, blueprints and collages. Architects and planners depend excessively on drawings to conceptualise space. This work mimics the process of drawing. In many ways the work interrogates the process of producing architecture through reprocessing the drawing.
#LifeImitatesArt #Drawing #Conceptual #Conceptualising #IndianAesthetic #Architect #Architecture #Notebooks #Sketching #Ideas #Ideology #Exhibit #Beaut #WhereIsSpace #JawaharKalaKendra #Jaipur #JaipurDiaries #JaipurJournal #Rajasthan #India #Wanderer #Wanderlust #Travel #Travelogue #TravelDiaries (at JKK-Jaipur, Jawahar Kala Kendra)
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Maan Singh was commanded by Akbar to march beyond the Indus and put down the rebellion in Kabul. The great commander hesitated as the River Indus what is the limit for the medieval Hindus. The point at which the river was traditionally crossed by non-Hindus has been labelled by the Hindus as the uttuk (Attock) or barrier. Responding to the hesitation of Maan Singh, Akbar wrote a couplet to be sent to Maan Singh:
Sub hain bhum Gopal ka
Jis me uttuk kahan?
Jis ke man me uttuk hai
So een uttuk hoega.
The whole earth belongs to God
where is the barrier in it?
He who is mind has a barrier
will always find itself bound.
maan Singh cross the river and crush the rebellion in Kabul.
The Floating Roof
The Urban Project
The floating roof is a spatial organism blurring the distinctions between land, sky, the built and the unbuilt. It’s never touch is the land or the sky, but restlessly meditates in between. It hopes to bring alive the fear and joys of its inhabitants.
#Arts #Instillation #Built #Unbuilt #InBetween #PushingBoundaries #IndianAesthetic #ArtInstillation #TheFloatingRoof #TheUrbanProject #WhereIsSpace #RupaliGupte #PrasadShetty #JawaharKalaKendra #Architecture #Jaipur #JaipurDiaries #JaipurJournal #Rajasthan #India #Wanderer #Wanderlust #Travel #Travelogue #TravelDiaries (at JKK-Jaipur, Jawahar Kala Kendra)
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Some beautifully hand crafted portraits from an unknown Afghani sculptor. 1980s
#Refugee #Artist #Displacement #Heritage #Wood #Sculpture #Beaut #Beautiful #Art #ForeignArtistsInIndia #Unknown #Portrait #IndianAesthetic #Afghan #HandMade #HandCarved #Nodia #NewDelhi #DelhiDiaries #DelhiJournal #Capital #India #Wanderer #Wanderlust #Travel #Travelogue #TravelDiaries (at Noida, India)
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A beautiful relief on an elephant in the entrance of a Krishna Temple in the winding roads of the walled city of Jaipur.
#MarvelInMarble #Relief #MarbleRelief #Beaut #IndianAesthetic #Carved #HandCarved #Beaut #Beautiful #KrishnaTemple #Gokha #Pol #Entrance #WalledCityOfJaipur #Jaipur #JaipurDiaries #JaipurJournal #Rajasthan #India #Wanderer #Wanderlust #Travel #Travelogue #TravelDiaries (at Purani Basti Ch)
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How Chitrashala would have originally looked throughout.
Made it into the locked chambers of the Palace, extensively painted inch to inch. The craftsmanship, finesse and refined aesthetic which you witness here is truly remarkable.
#Heritage #Historic #TimeGoneBy #Arts #Narrative #KrishnaInRaas #Gods #Kings #HandPainted #Splendid #Original #IndianAesthetic #Preserved #Arts #BundiCourtPainting #Patronage #PatronsOfArt #Chitrashala #BundiGarh #Bundi #BundiDiaries #BundiJournal #Rajasthan #India #Wanderer #Wanderlust #Travel #Travelogue #TravelDiaries (at Garh Palace)
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A reoccurring theme of a lady playing with a yo-yo.
#Iconography #Arts #Ladies #Nayaka #RasikaPriya #Narration #Tales #Zenana #Iconic #HandMade #HandPainted #IndianAesthetic #Thematic #Play #Chitrashala #BundiGarh #Bundi #BundiDiaries #BundiJournal #Rajasthan #India #Wanderer #Wanderlust #Travel #Travelogue #TravelDiaries (at Garh Palace)
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Had the pleasure to convert some of the most exquisite dado patterns in araaish from Nagaur into vectors.
#Elegance #Delight #Beaut #Dados #Shrubs #Floral #Poppy #Iris #FloralRichness #IndianAesthetic #OldTalesNewMedium #AdobeIllustrator #Illustration #Prints #ColourWay #Mine #Werk #Jaipur #JaipurDiaries #JaipurJournal #Rajasthan #India #Wanderer #Wanderlust #Travel #Inspiration #Travelogue #TravelDiaries (at Jaipur)
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#WhenIsSpace #ArtInstillation #Space #Art #Form #Structure #IndianAesthetic #Beaut #Red #Curated #Beaut #JawaharKalaKendra #Jaipur #JaipurDiaries #JaipurJournal #Rajasthan #India #Wanderer #Wanderlust #Travel #Travelogue #TravelDiaries (at JKK-Jaipur, Jawahar Kala Kendra)
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