Color Feature of the Week: Turquoise

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This week the featured color is Turquoise and Thank you all for submitting your work. There was so much beautiful work that I had tochoose 10 artists. Click on the pictures and do check out their amazing shops.

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Travel Entry: Rock Garden

This is one of the most unique gardens I have seen. Rock Garden is located in Chandigarh, Punjab and is made of mostly recycled/upcycled material and also uses a lot of concrete that is used in the most creative way.

Here you will see stunning landscapes of mountains and waterfalls. If seen closely they are jute bags that filled with concrete to make the structure and of course a lot of rebar.

Almost every surface is covered with broken tiles, broken sinks, cups, plates, glass. There was this array of abstract concrete forms and I spotted my early teapot forms here. Can you see the resemblance?

Then there was this huge area set up like an outdoor auditorium. the mosaic work done on the walls was one of the best I have seen. This place would be a mosaic artist's paradise. The picture below is of a small section of the 300ft+ wall. Just square measures about 6 feet. So imagin 50 of these in amazing colors.

Other than covering the walls with tile, there are surfaces covered with electric sockets. Like in the wall behind my wife in the picture below. You can see the detail.

The walls below are made with pebbles stacked in different ways making lovely patterns.

And the wall below was one of my favorites. From far it just looked like an orange wall. But in close up you can see it is small terra cotta pots that are stacked to make this wall.

The highlight of the garden are the doll scultures below that are made of broken glass bangles. I had visited this place when I was 8 and I have a feeling my current dancing diva sculptures made their first entrance in my brain at that time looking at these beauties.

Color Feature of the Week: Magenta

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Color Feature of the Week: Rustic Brown

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Travel Entry: Langar (Meal at the Gurudwara)

If you are familiar with Sikhism, you must have heard of the langar, the meal that is served at a Sikh Temple. Below is a very nice clipping of an upcoming documentary talking about the langar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eRAEilK_n4

It is amazing that so many people regardless of caste creed or religion have this free meal as a blessing. In the Golden temple, around 1000 people are seated, fed and then the room is cleared up in 10-15 minutes... and then the next 1000 people come in. Here is a picture of a small section of the crowd and the quick cleaning that follows before the next crowd walks in.

Now you must be thinking... how is it possible to feed so many people, so quickly and prepare food in such quantities. All the work of cooking is done by volunteers and it is a great honor to serve in the langar. Check out the huge cooking vessels and the vegetables being prepped for cooking.

Garlic being peeledOnions chopped.Carrots chopped and potatoes peeled.Potatoes and peas.
And then of course is the cleaning of the utencils. No dishwasher here.

If you haven't been to a Sikh Temple and had the Langar, you are really missing something. The food is delicious and prepared with so much love and kindness. Almost all gurudwaras in the US too offer Langar (If not everyday, then at least on weekends)