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Issue No: 306, January 2015

Woodscapes

In November, the Citadines Art Gallery hosted an exhibition of the woodcraft of Auroville architect Tejaswini, made in Auroville over the past year. “Furniture making has become extension of my architecture work,” she wrote in her invitation. The exhibition showcased unique pieces: tables, tabourets, stools and art works under her trade name ‘Woodscapes’. “As an architect, I was always interested in furniture,” she says. “Architecture is about creating spaces, furniture is about filling them.” The inspiration, she says, was provided by Kenji. “When I was working with Suhasini some years ago, on Saturdays I would normally work a half day.  I spent the other half watching Kenji working his craft.” The ‘apprenticeship’ lasted six months. “It is not that I learned carpentry from him, but just watching him, how he would get immersed in his work, made a deep impact.” Tejaswini experiments with wood, most of it in organic form, and uses various mate...
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Issue No. 306, January 2015

  • Growing timber and firewood for Auroville
  • Kenji’s Woodwork
  • Aurorachana
  • Prakrit
  • Woodscapes
  • Reflections on a feedback process
  • The Auroville Statistics Initiative
  • Villages clean-up
  • Kindling the Viewless Fire
  • Combatting alcoholism
  • The Odd Couple
  • Prema (Passing)
  • We have a Working Committee
  • Population statistics 2014
  • Veenapani Chawla (Passing)
  • New Dawn Carpentry

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