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Posted in Artist, Smita Srivastava, SoFoBoMo on Apr 30th, 2008
SoFoBoMo Day-7 Spent a couple of hours at Smita’s studio, talking about her new paintings while she was working on a few consecutive canvases with acrylic paint. The most interesting, was how she works some of her paintings up-side-down and gets all the background effects she wants… then flip them over right-side-up and work the [...]
A pair of Bulbuls [Red-Vented. Pycnonotus cafer bengalensis] had made a nest in a Ficus shrub, 3 chicks hatched just over a week ago and today for the first time they were hopping on the branches of the big Mahogany tree and in a short while had learned to fly! The mother had brought something [...]
Posted in Artist, Fareha Zeba, Rokeya Sultana, Saidul Haque Juise, Smita Srivastava, SoFoBoMo, Ujwala Prabhu on Apr 28th, 2008
SoFoBoMo day 6 – a bit of expansion. I’d started out the SoFoBoMo project creating a profile of just 2 Bangladeshi artists – Zeba & Juise.  I’m now expanding it to include a few other artists as well. Rokeya Sultana, a Bangladeshi artist; and 2 an Indian artists living in Bangladesh: Ujwala Prabhu and  Smita Srivastava, all [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Buriganga, Destruction, Heather Pillar, Heritage, Hindu, mosque, river, Ruins, Sadarghat, Sonargaon, Stein Naevdal, temple on Apr 26th, 2008
A trip to Sonargaon, around 30 KM from Dhaka city…. the ancient Capital now in ruins. Like a ghost town, the homeless living in abandoned buildings. Buildings that were probably majestic and stately at one time, now crumbling in neglect, robbed of their ornate carved doors and windows, full of rubbish and the homeless… pathetic [...]
Posted in Fareha Zeba, Saidul Haque Juise, SoFoBoMo on Apr 24th, 2008
SoFoBoMo Day-4: Juise’s workbench. We had a power outage [one of several that we have every day], and I had just stepped into his small “office” and setup 2 SB800s to take some photos of the workspace. It went completely dark in there when the power went out, I was able to focus on something, cant [...]