Baby Krishna floats on a Peepul leaf on the on the ocean of Ananda / Bliss...
#devrairockdhokra #balkrishna

Today is Buddha Purnima , celebrated as the birth anniversary of the enlightened one, Gautam Buddha. He showed us the way how Wisdom and Compassion go hand in hand...
The two Rock Dhokra diyas, one with the Peepal leaf and the other with the swan tell the story of Gautama's enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree and his compassion for all living beings when he claimed even when as a child that his right as a saviour on the hurt swan was more than his cousin's who had shot it down with his arrow!
#buddha #siddartha #wisdom #compassion #india #devrairockdhokra #devraiartvillage

Our first big exhibition out of Panchgani was at India International Centre in 2015, when Laila Tyebji, the founder of Dastakar, had graced the occasion as our chief guest... #devraiartvillage #devrairockdhokra @ India International Centre

These three monkeys will be affixed on the jewellery stand tree being created by Somesh Madhavi
The real twig used will turn into brass Rock Dhokra monkeys will be swinging from the branches.
#jewelrystand #devrairockdhokra #creativity

Devrai Art Village is evolving board games for children with the motive of weaning them from addiction to the screen!
Today we had a group of children from an orphanage in Mumbai. Look at them engrossed in the game based on the age old Tortoise and the Hare race. But here each player has a tortoise and a hare to play with . The hare can move two dice throws but if he falls on the dream maze , he has to move into the second maze, complete it before resuming his place on the board. Here we have the hare winning the race too.
The idea is to question the set patterns of thinking and dreaming afresh new solutions!
#interactivegames #boardgames #fun #creativitythrougharts #artineducation

Sometimes we feel like drumming on about our success in creating Devrai Rock Dhokra- the first time ever fusion of stone and brass!
#devrairockdhokra #frog #nandi #cow

Trying to create our own Didgeridoo with a long Tumba! We need to practice on it. Sometimes when the air is blown in the right way, it gives a conch like sound!
#musicinstrument #driedgourd @ Devrai Art Village

So gratifying to see the beaming smile on a happy customer! Sharon waited patiently till the pendant got buffed and then strung on the leather string...

Devrai Rock Dhokra, our self made identity!
On 7th May we celebrated Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary. May these words always inspire us into action!
“Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high,
where knowledge is free.
where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection...
into ever widening thought and action.
Into that heaven of freedom, my father,
LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!”