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Mojari Jootis Kolhapuris
© Penelope Gan – All Rights Reserved – Jaipur, Rajasthan, INDIA
Mojaris, Jootis and Kolhapuris ‘floods’ Rajasthan, Delhi and Punjab with production dating back to the period of Kings and Queens. During its heydays, Jootis were heavily embroidered with real gold and silver threads and decorated with previous gems and pearls. But, with the passage of [...]
Vandalism | Art
© Penelope Gan – All Rights Reserved – {some}backstreet – Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
“I think graffiti writing is a way of defining what our generation is like. Excuse the French, we’re not a bunch of p—- artists. Traditionally artists have been considered soft and mellow people, a little bit kooky. Maybe we’re a little bit more like [...]
Malaysian Chinese Opera
© Penelope Gan – All Rights Reserved – Performers Backstage – Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Chinese opera has been reduced to nothing more than an incidental ‘performance’ limited to temple celebrations and festivals that are often associated with the spiritual need to appease and honour deities. Couple with poorly constructed makeshift stages, unhygienic living conditions, worn-out costumes [...]
Sculptured Dough
© Penelope Gan – All Rights Reserved – Jonker Street, Malacca, MALAYSIA
Sculpturing with dough is a folk art that is a dying tradition and little known off outside China. Based on known written records, dough sculpturing is believed to have dated back to the Han Dynasty (206BC – AD220) where they were made as sacrifices [...]
Women Weavers: Kully Valley
© Penelope Gan – All Rights Reserved – Old Manali, Himachal Pradesh, INDIA
What appears to be distinctively distracting as you drive down the lovely and pristine road connecting Kullu and Manali with the roaring Beas river flowing pass and alpine landscape soaring way way above the skyline, are countless of shops selling mufflers, stoles and shawls, [...]