The Art Of Anthing-
-when small children are taught how to do things in a proper manner, how to grow vegetables, the first step is done first , the soil is cleaned , dug up and leveled and made into a small surface of bed where seeds will be sown,
-how to learn alphabet, how to cook , young girls and boys now learn cooking, computing, driving, all are skills and bracketed as how to like wanna be stuff
-I began to make a simple lace with my shuttle, not the thread which really suits lacework I replaced it with what ever was available like the yarn used for making quilts and hand sewn mattresses, shivani arrived , she is my mother's tailor , unmarried and stay home type in the side street in the neighbourhood, mother plans to attend a wedding function after ages in the village of her father
-shivani came and mother was in the washroom, shilpa called me and I sat down with the guest who was looking strikingly pretty in blossom pinks with he r marble skin,
-waiting for someone and meantime spending time is an art not taught but it has to be cultivated, I long ago learnt to spend time and I showed her my creations , crocheted blankets , the patterns taken from youtube , colours used were again whatever available around in local markets, I saw she liked the work and hinted she had an aunt who used to make laces but no longer can she make for she is over worked and yarn not available,
-I promised to make a three meter long lace for her , hoping she would like it and can attach it at round her dresses, first she was to give me colour scheme, but then what range I have I make my own design and she will get matching dress
-art is of any kind and pleasure to practice or it is not art
-cutting and stitching dresses and materials , taking measurements and planning a dress for others use is difficult because more times than we know our tastes vary
-mother began packing the parcels as gifts for the function, and alsp delighting in anticipation,
-my uncle"s son is getting married , and the function is always held in the host"s house for good will and good luck
-people have money and marriage halls are also booked for the convenience of guests who can find their way and a parking spot around the wedding halls , but the house is the main hub always , whether in village s or the cities function happens and begins from the hosts and his family and spreads out like a wild forest fire of sparks flying in air filled with cheer
-some twenty or thirty years ago there were no halls and neighbours were helpful and accommodated guests and arrangements were made easier with a cooperative social network , now village is also as much competitive as towns and guests are invited for their presence and status not for their closeness
-parties were warm when housewives baked sweet tea cakes and scones and served them hot and steaming snacks with hot cups of tea in sunny verandas in winters and cool shade of trees growing in the vicinity in summer evenings
-I feel bakeries have less attractive appeal with malls and factory made sandwiches, bread, and bakes dumped in mountains to beat the Chinese dumps , but I still prefer hand made for their rough textures , hand made art, handmade rangolis, handmade mud lamps, handmade paper, handmade candles, handmade and self made as much as possible not unique , not good quality to beat perfection of machines, yet handmade laces and crocheted baby blankets are so warm
-parties and functions with cooks sitting in traditional style cooking a feast to the entire village and their surrounding villages use their hands in making , rolling, pressing, dough and frying and cutting vegetables, eating with hands also has a familiar feeling of close knit social warmth woven directly into the community
-every art has one thing in common and that is a sincere heart and this is missing in new arts corrupting the sincerity and replacing it cold blooded harsh feelings of competition that is going into it to defeat -others and eventually defeating their own purpose
-art explodes from within , it comes from a point of imagination and unfolds itself sometimes systematically other times artfully, there is no logic in it but beauty appreciated and admired
-art is not skilled because skills are expertise and creativity from expertise is smoother and more efficient and art is purely a creative imagination , so practice and practice and keep practicing to make art of anything endurable till expertise is gained ,I thought and began with a simple lace , now I know so much about threads, types of them and yarns available on line and locally and produced in which countries and states in india and their shades and thickness numbers and quality and variety , whether natural cotton silk or synthetic nylon acro and what patterns trendy , though not of any profit this knowledge is to me I feel good because art of anything is art that all others do not have
-how to learn alphabet, how to cook , young girls and boys now learn cooking, computing, driving, all are skills and bracketed as how to like wanna be stuff
-I began to make a simple lace with my shuttle, not the thread which really suits lacework I replaced it with what ever was available like the yarn used for making quilts and hand sewn mattresses, shivani arrived , she is my mother's tailor , unmarried and stay home type in the side street in the neighbourhood, mother plans to attend a wedding function after ages in the village of her father
-shivani came and mother was in the washroom, shilpa called me and I sat down with the guest who was looking strikingly pretty in blossom pinks with he r marble skin,
-waiting for someone and meantime spending time is an art not taught but it has to be cultivated, I long ago learnt to spend time and I showed her my creations , crocheted blankets , the patterns taken from youtube , colours used were again whatever available around in local markets, I saw she liked the work and hinted she had an aunt who used to make laces but no longer can she make for she is over worked and yarn not available,
-I promised to make a three meter long lace for her , hoping she would like it and can attach it at round her dresses, first she was to give me colour scheme, but then what range I have I make my own design and she will get matching dress
-art is of any kind and pleasure to practice or it is not art
-cutting and stitching dresses and materials , taking measurements and planning a dress for others use is difficult because more times than we know our tastes vary
-mother began packing the parcels as gifts for the function, and alsp delighting in anticipation,
-my uncle"s son is getting married , and the function is always held in the host"s house for good will and good luck
-people have money and marriage halls are also booked for the convenience of guests who can find their way and a parking spot around the wedding halls , but the house is the main hub always , whether in village s or the cities function happens and begins from the hosts and his family and spreads out like a wild forest fire of sparks flying in air filled with cheer
-some twenty or thirty years ago there were no halls and neighbours were helpful and accommodated guests and arrangements were made easier with a cooperative social network , now village is also as much competitive as towns and guests are invited for their presence and status not for their closeness
-parties were warm when housewives baked sweet tea cakes and scones and served them hot and steaming snacks with hot cups of tea in sunny verandas in winters and cool shade of trees growing in the vicinity in summer evenings
-I feel bakeries have less attractive appeal with malls and factory made sandwiches, bread, and bakes dumped in mountains to beat the Chinese dumps , but I still prefer hand made for their rough textures , hand made art, handmade rangolis, handmade mud lamps, handmade paper, handmade candles, handmade and self made as much as possible not unique , not good quality to beat perfection of machines, yet handmade laces and crocheted baby blankets are so warm
-parties and functions with cooks sitting in traditional style cooking a feast to the entire village and their surrounding villages use their hands in making , rolling, pressing, dough and frying and cutting vegetables, eating with hands also has a familiar feeling of close knit social warmth woven directly into the community
-every art has one thing in common and that is a sincere heart and this is missing in new arts corrupting the sincerity and replacing it cold blooded harsh feelings of competition that is going into it to defeat -others and eventually defeating their own purpose
-art explodes from within , it comes from a point of imagination and unfolds itself sometimes systematically other times artfully, there is no logic in it but beauty appreciated and admired
-art is not skilled because skills are expertise and creativity from expertise is smoother and more efficient and art is purely a creative imagination , so practice and practice and keep practicing to make art of anything endurable till expertise is gained ,I thought and began with a simple lace , now I know so much about threads, types of them and yarns available on line and locally and produced in which countries and states in india and their shades and thickness numbers and quality and variety , whether natural cotton silk or synthetic nylon acro and what patterns trendy , though not of any profit this knowledge is to me I feel good because art of anything is art that all others do not have
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