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Bottlecats They say necessity is the mother of invention… well, I don’t know if my bottlecats can qualify as an invention, but they were surely born out of necessity. When I was a resident Bombayite, a trip to Goa always yielded far too many liquor bottles. Wines, Vodka- you name it… what followed was one continuous party for spirit-deprived friends- I mean, 30 ml of the cheapest wine costs you 200 bucks in Bombay; you cannot blame my friends for expecting drunken orgies every time I returned, well stocked. So what do you do after a drunken orgy, when there are too many bottles lying around? How do you hide the evidence? Quick, turn them into bottlecats! |
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Sculpture This is probably the most difficult and most time consuming of all things that I make out of papier-mâché. Sculpting with papier-mâché requires that you make an initial skeleton with wires, chicken mesh or any other base that will take the weight of the mache applied on top. It takes a full 24 hours or more- depending on the complexity of the piece, to make this. One has to be adept at using pliers, drills and cutters- did anyone say being an artist was for genteel, delicate types? After I’m done with constructing the base skeleton, my hands look like a war zone. I have to wait for 3 days minimum before I can subject them to the additional torture of mixing the papier-mâché dough. Ever tried applying fevicol on open cuts and wounds? Not good. My Dream project- A study in pain. I will be making a collection of sculptures for which I will use barbed wire to make the skeleton. The process of making it will be as painful as the end result. Any takers? Don’t think so! Watch out for it. |