Concept: MANASIKA PUTRA
Design brief: To design the concept “manasika putra”
Story
Ganesha is depicted like a young man originating from the glittering forehead of Shiva absorbed in a deep meditation. He’s said to be the son born from the Shiva’s mind(so the name - manasika putra).
Lord shiva(in meditating posture) is made in sheet metal - etched and cut and Ganesha in silver with a forest bed with resin - painted.
Concept: WELL GANESHA
Design brief: To design the ambience of “well ganesha” which explains 90% of the concept by looking at it yet make the customer curious to ask for the story behind it.
Story
“Kani” means wetland and “Pakam” means flow of water into wetland.
According to the legend of the temple there were three brothers and each one had a handicap. Viz., Dumb, Deaf and Blind. They were earning out their livelihood by cultivating a small piece of land.
In olden days water was drawn from the well by way of ‘Piccota System’. As one of them used to irrigate the field through the channels, the other two used to ply on the Piccota. On one such operation they found that the water in the well got dried up and they could no longer continue their job. One of them got into the well and started digging it up. He was taken aback to see the iron implement hitting a stone like formation.
Later, he was shocked to see blood oozing out from it. Within a few seconds the entire water in the well, turned blood red in colour. Thus, startled by this divine sight, all the three became normal getting rid of their deformities. As soon as the villagers came to know about this miracle, they thronged to the well and tried to deepen the well further. But their attempt proved futile because the ‘swayambhu’ idol (the self-manifested) of Lord Vinayaka emerged from the swirling waters.
According to the legend of the temple there were three brothers and each one had a handicap. Viz., Dumb, Deaf and Blind. They were earning out their livelihood by cultivating a small piece of land.
In olden days water was drawn from the well by way of ‘Piccota System’. As one of them used to irrigate the field through the channels, the other two used to ply on the Piccota. On one such operation they found that the water in the well got dried up and they could no longer continue their job. One of them got into the well and started digging it up. He was taken aback to see the iron implement hitting a stone like formation.
Later, he was shocked to see blood oozing out from it. Within a few seconds the entire water in the well, turned blood red in colour. Thus, startled by this divine sight, all the three became normal getting rid of their deformities. As soon as the villagers came to know about this miracle, they thronged to the well and tried to deepen the well further. But their attempt proved futile because the ‘swayambhu’ idol (the self-manifested) of Lord Vinayaka emerged from the swirling waters.
Re-naming the article
SWAYAMBHU GANESHA
Concept: MUDRA GANESHA
Design brief: To design mudra Ganesha with dance as inspiration and to create an ambience of it.
Concept
Re-creating ambience for dancing Ganesha in Natraj pose. Taking classical dance form (Kuchipudi) as an inspiration - The fire elements in Natraj’s are here replaced by different mudras like offering him flowers at bottom, mudra of shankh, then comes his blessing hand, then 'kapittha' mudra used to depict Ganesha while dancing, then showing his huge ears, eyes and 'namaskara' mudra (a start and an end).
Re-naming the article
NATRAJ MUDRA GANESHA
Concept: MUDRA FACE GANESHA
Design brief: To create ambience and story to place Ganesha with the inspiration of dance.
Concept
Ganesha dancing in the mandir of shiv ji with devotion, love and happiness and at the sight of that the instruments carved on the pillars of the temple start playing by itself with content.
The temple structured sheet metal has Shivling and temple architecture etched, the pillars and base(mandapa) is in wood and different instruments in sheet are fixed around the four pillars. Ganesha is placed in center who is happy to dance in his father's temple and so the name - Nritya(dance) Santusht(content) Ganesha.
Re-naming the article
NRITYA SANTUSHT GANESHA
