SPACES feb issue 2017
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From the shelf<br />
Treasures of Nepal<br />
– Gary Wornell<br />
G<br />
ary Wornell has spent<br />
an important part of his<br />
life giving meaning to<br />
the clays of England. In return,<br />
he learned to find ideas in things<br />
around him. He learned to respect<br />
various raw materials brimming<br />
with spirit. He realized that a skilled<br />
craftsperson understands their<br />
language like their own mother<br />
tongue and that takes their time<br />
reach its full potential.<br />
His curiosity-fueled love for craft<br />
brought him to Kathmandu one day<br />
in 2012. The more time he spent<br />
here, the more he absorbed himself<br />
in the crafts found everywhere –<br />
statues, jewelry, thangkas, etc. In<br />
2013, when he travelled in the wider<br />
east and west of Nepal, art and craft<br />
still presented itself in all forms.<br />
Especially, he noted, in common<br />
local materials.<br />
Wornell found inspiration for<br />
‘Treasures of Nepal’ when he was<br />
in Kathmandu in 2014. Initially, he<br />
wanted to photograph craftsmen<br />
devoted to their craft. But once he<br />
knew what he wanted to do, he<br />
went around various workshops<br />
in Kathmandu with his two Nepali<br />
friends and got down to work.<br />
Though halted by April 2015<br />
earthquake, it gathered speed later<br />
that year.<br />
74 / <strong>SPACES</strong> February <strong>2017</strong>
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