Grounds for Change
BeeWare project, Lindsay Dirkx Brown Galllery, San Ramon, CA
Mixed Media
Participants: Rhea Shetty, Sathvik Chandrupatla, Arjun Sampath, Kyle Wong, Nitya Garg, Namrata Mishra, Nivedha Kumar, Kaavya Vipul, Anika Sharma, Arshita Goyal, Tanvi Chichli, Anika Awasthi, Maya Mankude
BeeWare project, Lindsay Dirkx Brown Galllery, San Ramon, CA
Mixed Media
Participants: Rhea Shetty, Sathvik Chandrupatla, Arjun Sampath, Kyle Wong, Nitya Garg, Namrata Mishra, Nivedha Kumar, Kaavya Vipul, Anika Sharma, Arshita Goyal, Tanvi Chichli, Anika Awasthi, Maya Mankude
Grounds for Chage
Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, San Ramon, CA, 2017
'Quilting Resilience' in collaboration with Rewire Group, San Ramon CA
Participants: Archana Chhaya, Meetu Arya, Riya Verghese, Eileen Serra, Shyalja Venkatraman, Nadia Ann, Sumedha Arya, Zahrah Shahab, Leela Yashwant, Anjana Sardana
Meghdoot, Shifting Movements, SOMArts Cultural Center
Meghdoot, (The Cloud Messenger)
2017, 15'x14'
Collaborative Mixed Media Installation
Chloe Alcock, Breanna M.Bayba, Michael Boyce,
Ivan H. Chen, Danielle A. Forward, Christopher M. Kelly, Yvonne Lin, Marjerrie S. Masicat, Christopher Shi,
Smedal Kjetil, Julie T. Tran, Ethan J. Verkler, Virginia L. Williams, and Jessica M.Young
The title of our collaborative work refers to the ancient Sanskrit text "Meghdoot" (The
Cloud Messenger) by the poet Kalidas. In this literary text, an
exiled Yaksha (Demigod) sends messages through clouds to his beloved wife and
yearns to reunite with her. In our installation, each rain cloud depicts inner turmoil on the
present state of the world and also acts as a prayer to settle down the dust of violence,
terror, and discrimination in the name of gender, race, and ethnicity.
The material of the clouds shares a similar texture to the feel of human skin. Each piece
of clothing on the line is representative of the person. Like people, no cloud shape is the
same, and individual clouds are separate in form but create formations and
communities together, pushed together and apart by the winds of social change. We are
transitory and migratory, pushed and pulled by forces that we cannot always control.
Social issues at first glance may seem to be separate, but like clotheslines, share
similar threads that intersect in our communities.
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Meghdoot
6' x 5'
Collaborative Art Project with Asian American Community in San Ramon and Fremont
October, 2016, Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, San Ramon, CA
Collaborating Artists: Vibhooti Juneja, Kyle Wong, Mira Bathwal, Piya Mukherjee Kalra, Pam Wong, Kavya Vipul, Indu Gupta, Tejal Sheth, Poonam Uppal, Namrata Misra, Kanchan Darftadar Fernandes, Nitya Garg, Tanvi Chichili, Meenakshi Arora, Akash Mankude, Joshua Vanan Uppal, Hayagreev Veeru, Anika Awasthi, Preeti Sharma, Sangita Shriwas, Sanika Shriwas, Pavani Prithviraj, Anupama Ramachandran, Jayanthi Srinivasan, Tanvi S. Thummala, Kavita Patel, Sreeya Yekollu, Nivedha Kumar
