Varanasi Artists' Workshop - "Pollution and the Ganga"

September 19-22 we participated in an Artists' Workshop in Varanasi co-sponsored by an Ashram with Kingdom purposes and a community agency for the preservation of Varanasi heritage. Here are some of the visual highlights...

The inside of the Ashram...





Opening of the Workshop by Swami-ji and a Professor of Sacred Architecture at Bararas Hindu University...






Two of the participants from Delhi were a husband/wife artist team. He is a professor and Academic Dean at Picasso Art School, she is an interior designer, both practising artists...




These are two works done by a friend of ours from Delhi who is an emerging artist originally from Orissa...



This is our installation - representing the birth, death and rebirth of the Gange - viewed from the 2nd floor. We were very discouraged about how this piece was turning out until Janis saw it from this perspective...