Tellurian Tales: From Soil To Soul
Toshavi Newaskar, INN/Gwalior, @infodeaofficial
Tellurian tales of fingers curving their way into clay and spinning the soil into life is what the laymen call pottery.
Modelling clay and giving it a new life and existence with trembling hands which somehow seem to lack the form, is how ironically the procedure for pottery starts.
Credits- Amulya Agarwal
Mixing clay and other ceramic materials gives mortality to the otherwise unhygienic looking soil, which once heated up into an earthen creation, stands amongst the oldest inventions of humans.
Clay creations are the product of tenacity and steadfastness shown on the part of those rural beings who earn their livelihood by shaping the soil they have emerged from.
Credits- Amulya Agarwal
Pottery in urban lifestyle is just a visitor and restricted to festivities and ornamentation. On the other side of the coin, rurality subsists on encompassing earthenware in their daily utilization.
Credits- Amulya Agarwal
But, pottery is so much more than just betwixt rural and urban regime, it is transcendently beyond all boundaries of material conspiracies.
Pottery is an allegory of culture and withering rituals that once stood strong.
It is art, the divine manifestation of godly strokes all combined into one single piece of what once was merely part of the land, soil.
Credits- Amulya Agarwal
It’s a proven fact that the soil-fabricated pottery utensils are far superior to the utensils the urbanized world is wont to use.
The photographer Amulya finds it exceptional, the way the pottery artists dissolve into the work at hand and turn the lifeless clay into a way of existence.
Every single pottery product has its own tale to enchant people by all that’s needed are eyes that could penetrate the beauty that lies in the soil that’s become hard with sparkling time spent in the heat.
From soil to something that has a soul of its own, pottery and the hands that honor its creation are sacred and deserve the well-lit justice the photographs connote.