Pigflower Designs

Saturday, January 10, 2009

I like t shirts and i like making them (if that includes painting on them).
This is the first time im working with screen printers apart from whatever i learned and forgot in Bible college.
The designs are for the Lounge Piranha - Going Nowhere album. Check them out http://www.loungepiranha.com/
ps - Apparenty Lounge Piranha is really cool except for one really cheeky guy called Tron.

* lounge piranha lip scissors

* going nowhere ladybug dot shedding.

* going nowhere psycho pencil ducks.

Bon South - South Indian Fine Dine Restaurant

For this particular project George,Pervez and i worked together. The theme was "South India " and the restaurant was to be a gallery of contemporary art. After long discussions of what "contemporary" art is and using google as a threat we satisfied the emperor.
For more details and bigger images go to http://www.georgemathen.com/ and http://www.pervezdesigns.com/

I mostly contributed with photography,running around for production, making a south indian temple influenced coconut pillar with rajasthani craftsmen and these yakshagana masks of Vali, with tamil craftsmen. We first wanted to fill up a wall with a million kathakali masks but Vali proved to be more interesting and realistic. I had also come up with a metal Boat skeleton buffet table - an idea that i am particularly proud of but Alas! it was not used.... *sigh*

* yakshagana masks of Vali.

* click on image to zoom in. * click on image to zoom in.

New Shoes

2 of my newer work.
I used to like to use lips and eyes and elephants and flowers in my older work. I now find myself facinated with claws,birds,lady bugs and leaves .

*lady bird alien boy robot.

*flemenco man

Friday, January 9, 2009

Popsies Restaurant

Popsies is a chinese restaurant in koramangala,Bangalore,India. The Owner Philip wanted to break away from the chinese theme interiors, he also happened to really like my work (tribal/abstract) so we filled the restaurant with it.All the tables were first primed and then i painted them and then we framed them with 40mm glass.The idea was to have the experience of eating off a painting on a table.It worked really well.We also framed smaller paintings and hung them on the walls. This added to the concept and brought the place together.