Art Ichol Journal

Gopika Nath
when I was told to pee on the floor! But, what else could I do? When one’s got to go,
one has to make do with what is available. I laughed, but as there was no-one from the
group to share the joke, I returned to the furnaces. And the dirty cape was forgotten.
Browsing through the day’s endeavour on my computer, I was inspired to consider the
melting and moulding of the metals in making of the vessel, as evocative of the kind
of grind we human beings also go through, to come into our own. And, tabulating the
process for the photo essay, I saw, perhaps for the first time with such clarity, that the
human relationship with self - enacted through others, is forged with as much angst as
the melding of copper and zinc - inseparably, as brass.
A textile artist, art critic, blogger, poet and teacher, Gopika Nath
is passionate about textiles and is working to redefine the value
of hand-crafting towards bridging the prevalent art-craft divide.
Working with needle and thread, she is engaged in evolving a
contemporary language of embroidery - using thread as a metaphor
for life. www.gopikanathstitchjournal.blogspot.com