Passage - Ceramics at the Hyatt, Chennai

Rakhee Kane Aavartan Pottery, Auroville

Embracing Space Working in Ray Meeker’s studio among seven other artists, all pushing limits—limits of scale, material, process and self - confidence—inspired me to work large and provided an opportunity to explore the idea of the interconnection between the organic growth of nature and the complexity of our human habitats. This is an installation of fourteen pillars. Six are structural, supporting a canopy of dense vegetation that seems to float above the pool deck, cloud - like, offering an area of deep shade, a challenge to the blazing South Indian sun. The eight “companion” pillars evoke a sense of the prehistoric henge—the timeless. Motifs of ordinary leaf and window reject specific geographical and cultural associations of any kind. Open to the universal.