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An 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.

July 20 2009

2009 - Glimpses-From-Sacredarts-University

A man in a checked short-sleeved shirt and white dhoti with green border squats on a bare concrete floor, hammering and chasing a sheet of copper with a hand chisel and hammer. A red thread is tied on his wrist. Around him lie metal tools, a hammered copper bowl, stacked copper pots and wooden crates, and a concrete block wall stands behind. No a person candidate is visible; the scene shows metal casting and craft work at a sacred arts setting.

2006-12-10 +1 copies

September 06 2009

Two men sit barefoot on bare ground working on a metal sculpture. The man on the left wears a white shirt and light blue jeans and uses a chisel-like tool on the metal. The man on the right wears a teal-grey shirt, a mustard-yellow dhoti with yellow border, and a red thread on his wrist, holding a hammer. Behind them sit sacks, copper-coloured pots and other tools on the dusty ground. No deity form is clearly identifiable from this view.

A 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.

A craftsman in a white shirt and maroon lungi sits cross-legged on a tarpaulin in a dusty workshop, working on a large white sculpture of a bull's body with a chisel and mallet. Around him lie sculpted pieces in rust-coloured and grey tones, a metal tool, scattered sacks and debris, and cinder-block walls. The workshop setting suggests temple sculpture or statue-making.

A man in a white short-sleeved shirt and white dhoti with orange-striped border sits on a wooden platform in a thatched workshop, bent over a curved copper sheet resting on a stone block. Beside him stands a metal rod or stand. Behind him lie a large gilded metal piece with red cloth, cardboard boxes, a plastic bottle, steel containers and a blue gas cylinder. The workman is shaping the metal by hand.

A man in a checked collared shirt and white lungi crouches on a concrete floor, hammering a repoussé design into a sheet of orange-and-brown patinated copper. A wooden-handled chisel or punch rests against the metal, and scattered nails, metal curls and wood shavings lie around him. The embossed relief shows a face with bulging eyes, possibly a deity or mask motif. The scene looks like a metal craft workshop.

2006-12-10 +1 copies

2009 - Glimpses-From-Sacredarts-University

A craftsman sits cross-legged on a dirt floor in a shed with breeze-block walls, working on a large sculpture. He wears a white shirt and maroon dhoti with a gold border, holding a chisel and mallet. Around him lie pale plaster or stone pieces, painted orange and pink fragments, and a textured white block with carved yellow-and-white pillar-like forms. The scene shows temple idol or sacred-art fabrication in progress.