Happy Crows 1
ela mukherjee
Medium: stoneware
Size:7” x 7” x 7”
Year:
Ref. No:ELM 101
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About The Artist
Ela Mukherjee’s Statement
I am a ceramic artist based in Delhi, India. I spend most of my working times in my studio. But at times I go as a visiting faculty to various art and design schools to teach. I enjoy exploring visual and tactile quality of clay as a medium of expression. But at times I juxtapose other materials like textile, metal, wood etc. I do a lot of pencil drawings and clay sketches and plan my works before I actually set out to start a work. My work is about repetitive sequencing with separate elements to form a cohesive sculptural group. Though small in scale, once installed, they often command a large space. In few of my recent works not only did I multiply the similar forms in large numbers, I started exploring the arrangement of them according to the available space. I love to repeat a form as I find this process meditative. It is the form which plays the most important role in my work. I usually take up a basic shape: multiply it using different technique. I am minimalist in using colour or glazes. The wall installation in this show is about that meditative repetition of forms. The other work is literary fresh off the wheel. The form of the pots is inspired by traditional Moon jars. It is a simple pure form and to me it
represents fullness or even the universe. Once the form was thrown, it reminded me of the Aesop’s fables- the story of The Thirsty Crow. This led me to the illustration I did on the surface of the pot. But I wanted my crows to be happy and celebrating life and I wanted my pot to be joyful. I love the animated characteristics of crows and I did not want
