Details
- 86 pages
- 16 x 8 centimeters
- children ages 3+
- 4 colors
- paperback
- Flip Book
Published by Tara Publishing
Book description
Browse 3 titles in Women's Art of the Everyday series
Watch Selvi draw a beautiful kolam– a traditional South Indian floor
pattern done with rice flour. Kolams are drawn outside homes everyday, to beautify the entrance, and as a sign of welcome. They are also seen as offerings to the natural world – ants and other small creatures feed on the flour.
Womens’ Art of the Everyday
Women in Tamil Nadu, South India, use rice powder to create ritual floor patterns, called Kolams, everyday. Drawn on thresholds to homes, work places or sites of worship, especially elaborate Kolams are reserved for ceremonial occasions.
Whether you’re encountering this form for the first time or are so used to it that you’ve never paid much attention, this book will be a revelation. Conceived by Italian artist Andrea Anastasio as he watched Selvi, a Kolam expert, the book captures the flow of process that is at the heart of this practice – and restores the word ‘art’ to an act of ephemeral, everyday creativity.
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