Street Art

Siddiqui,a Delhi girl visiting from Toronto after many years,says,“I worked with eight children on a canvas. I asked them to create an image of their favourite place,object or memory.” And she was amazed when one of the kids made a confident,detailed memory drawing of the Taj Mahal. Images of Lord Krishna,Aladdin’s lamp and family portraits followed. The composition has been unified by Siddiqui’s painting of foliage and a big glass of “cutting chai”.

For Schade,coming back from Germany with her kids after 11 years and seeing “children camping on the street” was a bit of a harsh blow. “I went to a care home in Gurgaon,which has around 54 kids staying there. I bonded with three girls,Manju,Husna and Pooja,who said they wanted to paint. I decided to take them to my studio and teach them a few tricks of the trade,” says Schade,who studied art at the Maharaja Sayajirao University,Baroda . “The girls decided they wanted to paint colourful dots. My role was not to interfere but to guide them a bit and hold together these trippy dots with soothing grey lines,” says Schade. She plans to work with the children again.

Fabian chose to work with Firoz,who is an aspiring fashion photographer. He had been part of a project to clean the Yamuna and wanted to go back there and take photographs of the area. “We decided to do a storyboard in four frames and spent two or three days on the banks of the Yamuna,” says Fabian. His two images of a “drowning goddess” and a smoking factory chimney are set off by Firoz’s images of a man washing the clothes and a youth picking trash out of the river. While Firoz plans to study photography,Fabian will continue to work on social issues to raise awareness.

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