Exposition

Petals to Light...Pedagogic Possibilities with Floor Art (2022)

Geetanjali Sachdev

About this exposition

My research explores rangoli and kolam floor art practices to understand their pedagogical potential for the study of plants. The research involved an analysis of a personal archive of rangoli and kolam images and a series of artistic collaborations. As indigenous art practices, rangoli and kolam have moved beyond traditional media that historically involved powdering rice plant seeds to draw dots and lines with our fingers, and decorating the ground with various flowers, leaves, and twigs. These floor art practices have expanded to incorporate alternative media such as lights, rollers, stencils, coloured beads, and stickers. The pedagogical value of rangoli and kolam floor art practices for plant study lies in the new media and materials that these indigenous ritual practices have embraced. These practices enable interpretations and contemporary adaptations within both traditional and modern contexts, and this allows learners with multi-literacies to access different kinds of knowledge about plants.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsfloor art, rangoli, kolam, pedagogy, ritual art
date26/05/2022
published26/05/2022
last modified26/05/2022
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationSrishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology
copyrightGeetanjali Sachdev
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/955755/1625683
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.955755
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue26. 26
external linkhttp://srishtimanipalinstitute.in/people/sm/geetanjali-sachdev


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955774 rice & kolam drawing_Ann Rosenthal Josh Armstrong, Alexandra Lakind & Ann Rosenthal All rights reserved
955788 Rangoli Hands, 8 petal flower Smriti Mehra All rights reserved
956262 Kolam used by Ann for Oryza Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956267 Sweden_installation in Gallery Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956269 Leslie collecting flowers Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956279 man & boy rangeen rangoli Smriti Mehra All rights reserved
956282 Rangeen rangoli Men doing Smriti Mehra All rights reserved
956287 rickshaw Smriti Mehra All rights reserved
956289 rich mans house with flowers Smriti Mehra All rights reserved
956312 KR Market Smriti Mehra All rights reserved
956332 topshot of girls_ flower project Smriti Mehra All rights reserved
956339 the flower project Smriti Mehra All rights reserved
956344 calendar Smriti Mehra, Geetanjali Sachdev, Gabriel Harp All rights reserved
956350 Kolam Simple geometrical Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956351 kolam elaborate white paste & color Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956353 Message Happy Birthday Stencils 1_Land Breeze Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956354 girl making on sankranti Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956355 Kolam and crows_Ana Dana Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956356 1 kolam elaborate Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956358 Kolam malleshwaram market beads Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956361 Carpet Kempe Gowda airport bengaluru Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956363 kolam light anjum Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956364 Rangoli in Bengaluru school Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956365 Kolam outside hut with woman on sankranti Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956815 kolam sticker outside house Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956817 school children doing rangoli Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956819 Message Happy Birthday Stencils 1_Land Breeze Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956824 Bead stickers Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956830 Covid rectangles Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
956838 Kolam simple lotus fading no shoes Geetanjali Sachdev All rights reserved
1362622 Street art Proposal Images Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1362627 Street art Proposal Images Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1362997 small yellow flower Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1363044 footsteps zoom Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1363131 jasmine clear square Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1363132 jasmine square 1 Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1363135 kolam dot 1 Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1363136 kolam dot 2 Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1363137 Pigeon Poo 1 square Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1363139 Pigeon Poo square 2 Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1363140 Small yellow flower square Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1363270 bauhinia square Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1363464 jasmine on street 1 geetanjali sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1363514 footsteps Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1363529 Keep distance Geetanjali Sachdev CC BY-NC-ND
1626816 Screenshot 2022-05-07 at 19.03.10 Sachdev All rights reserved
1626820 Screenshot 2022-05-07 at 19.06.43 Sachdev All rights reserved

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