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November 20 2009

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Making Of Sacred Arts UniversityA thatched workshop where artisans shape copper-coloured metal sculptures on the floor. A man in a white vest and white dhoti sits on a low stool at the right, bent over a sculpture piece and working with a torch or tool; a second seated worker in a grey shirt and dark trousers bends over metal pieces; a third man in a plaid shirt and blue checked lungi stands at the back. Scattered around them are sculpted parts, stone bases, copper-coloured figure fragments, a clay pot, cloth and bamboo walls. No deity murti is clearly identifiable and no one is clearly a person by appearance.2009-09-06July 04 20132013-07-04Four men sit on a floor in a workshop crafting silver or metal relief panels with hand chisels and tools. Two men on the left and centre work on pieces resting on a wooden board and cloth; the man on the right in a striped shirt and orange lungi works on ornate silver-toned relief figures. Scattered metal tools lie on the floor, and a green industrial machine stands behind them against a white tiled wall.2013-06-25Two men sit cross-legged on a bare concrete floor carving small white figures with hand tools. The man on the left wears a white shirt and dark dhoti-style lungi and strikes a chisel with a mallet. The man on the right wears a white-and-brown checked short-sleeved shirt and holds a small hammer and pointed tool while working on a pale figure resting on a wooden block beside his foot. Wood shavings and scattered chisels lie around them, with a pink mat and a blue-handled tool at left and clothes hanging on a white wall behind.2013-06-26An older woman in a white t-shirt and brown wrap sits cross-legged on a dirt floor in a dim workshop, working on a small copper-coloured metal object with fine wires and pliers. Around her lie hammers, tongs, a metal pot of liquid, clay vessels, copper pieces of deity and vahana forms, a plate-like copper piece, and loose wire. A bare-footed worker stands behind her near a stone block. No a person candidate is visible. +1 copiesDecember 20 20062006-12-20Making Of Sacred Arts UniversityFour men sit cross-legged on a bare concrete floor in a plain whitewashed room, carving white stone or plaster figures with chisels and hammers. The man at far left wears a light blue short-sleeved shirt and a checked lungi; the second man, barefoot and bare-chested, works on a small figure; the third wears a white shirt and dark lungi; the man at far right wears a checked shirt and shorts and holds a carved piece. Scattered tools, wood blocks, chips of white powder and a pink cloth lie on the floor, and clothes hang on the wall behind them. The image shows craftsmen making sculptures, with no ritual or a person visible.2013-06-26January 04 20122012-01-04A photograph of four men working on the floor of a bare, unfinished workshop with a corrugated and thatched ceiling. In the foreground a man in a pink-and-white checked shirt and white dhoti works on a reddish copper vessel, and beside him a man in a yellow-and-white striped sleeveless top and checked lungi strikes a metal piece with a hammer. A man in a grey-and-green checked shirt crouches at right chiselling a flat metal plate laid on a dark slab. Behind them a man in a black shirt bends over a large copper pot. Scattered iron nails, a hammer, a red-and-white plastic box, a small booklet, and burlap sacks lie on the concrete floor, with a red chair against the back wall.2006-12-10 +1 copiesTwo men in white dhoti and shirt sit on the floor of a workshop carving and hammering metal panels for a temple. The man in front works with a chisel on a copper-coloured plate resting on a wooden block, while the man behind uses a small hammer on a gilded ornamental piece. Around them lie a curved gilded decorative frame, a wooden block, metal tools and scattered metal shavings, with a concrete block wall and a carved wooden table behind.2006-11-20