Rediscovering the wheel after inventing it!

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Rediscovering the wheel after inventing it!


I said in in the last post that our mind was made.  And how?

The wheel is one of the earliest inventions of man.

 
And isn’t it fascinating that it’s still a work in progress. The ultimate wheel is still to be designed
These huge steam locomotive wheels are displayed in our factory.

 


Namma Wheels and Namma Wheel Makers

It started with a rather pedestrian idea. Using abandoned cycle stops of a stillborn “cycle around the factory” experiment, our wheels were displayed.  And we came across some of our staff, who had a very interesting sense of Art.

 



Wheels after wheels            

we are a proud part of this ongoing wheel saga

 
 
Amazing ideas from our wheel makers

Not trained formally in Visual Arts, but endowed with a great aptitude and more importantly, sensitivity.

They would be our precious Art soldiers.



Not knowing what was in store, these staff were encouraged  to give shape to their creative ideas.

And slowly, the face of the factory started to change from a drab jungle of metal and scrap to a metal and scrap jungle with exciting images.

 



 
And we commissioned some professional artists
and sculptors as well

 


 
Who are these this astronauts?
 

 

 
Dressed in fire-proof suits, making them look like astronauts, workmen stand erect, facing brutal red hot wheels, thin rods in their hands, in the unbearable heat, accentuated, not diminished, by frenzied industrial coolers kicking up a storm.

An image that sticks in the depths of one’s mind.

Meet the “Sprue Washers”!!

 

 

Makeover of factory walls

And gradually the fever picked up……factory gates and walls started looking up….steel plates became large canvasses…….dead oil tanks suddenly came to life…..

 

 Have you seen a rejection as beautiful?

It were as if every piece of junk was some art material and every spot of structure a canvas.

First we got this "Wheels within Wheels"

What passion and sensitivity in the mundane!!

 

 
Special wall murals by professional artists & students…….

 


It’s a work in progress………

 

Art camp of reputed painters inside the factory

Graffiti by wards of factory staff

More Murals and sculpture by our Art Club

Use of small scrap for metal sculpture

Sepia displays

Art work inside the factory by Art students

More statues/The Lancer & The Slagger

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