As I discovered places and things of interest I placed them on a google map, hoping to have an archive of interesting things to access whilst travelling and save a few trees and a baggage excess formed of wads of paper in the process. Things that have particularly caught my attention to date are the wall paintings in Kutch, Gujarat. The temporary Kolams, Rangolis or Alpana drawings that exist across much of India often taking on regional variations and local names, tilak and tilak tools, the improvised toys of village life, the coiled jewellery from Kutch, The bronze casting in Dhamrai. Metalworking (I’ve seen some woven metal), The boat building museum in Bangladesh and boat yards at Mandivi. The textiles of both Bangladesh and Gujarat, I had seen some wonderful handkerchiefs at the V&A. The forms of the brick kiln chimneys and the tattoos of Kutch . The fretwork screens and mosaics of the mosques. The, the, the …….
Which is all probably far too much! But we’ll see what happens. I would like to see the rivers, rice, learn more of what its like for artists and craftspeople in Bangladesh and learn more of the history
