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Detour to Kutch<br />
opportunity for interaction with<br />
musicians in residence as well as<br />
artists and writers?). I have lost count<br />
of the times I have travelled to India<br />
but for uninitiated overseas artists<br />
for whom the country’s sensory<br />
overload can be confronting and<br />
confusing, <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Ichol</strong>’s caring and<br />
reassuring environment will be<br />
especially welcome.<br />
Working with Indian textiles was one<br />
of those things that just happened in<br />
my life without much forethought or<br />
planning and my original art training<br />
was in sculpture and photography.<br />
With the excellent facilities at <strong>Art</strong><br />
<strong>Ichol</strong> for welding, casting and carving<br />
it is high time, Ambica told me, to get<br />
down and get dirty again with clay,<br />
stone and iron. It’s tempting, really<br />
tempting - but those photographers<br />
managed to get under my skin and<br />
I know I have to cure that bout of<br />
camera (and skill) envy. When I get<br />
back to Maihar, it will be clutching a<br />
really good digital SLR camera and<br />
hopefully, a sufficiently proficient<br />
skill set to produce something<br />
far more pictorially eloquent and<br />
evocative than I did with that iPhone.<br />
May it come soon.
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