Rediscovering the wheel after inventing it!
Rediscovering the wheel after inventing it!
I said in in the last
post that our mind was made. And how?
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
Amazing
ideas from our wheel makers
Not knowing what was in store, these staff were encouraged to give shape to their creative ideas.
And we commissioned some professional artists
and sculptors as well
An image that sticks in the depths of one’s mind.
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’s a work in progress………
Graffiti
by wards of factory staff
The
wheel is one of the earliest inventions of man.
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
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.
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…..
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"
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
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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