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rivers of
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Press
release 01 May 2010:
Nila
foundation announced the winners from crowd-sourcing of
sketches of which 14 sketches will be used for designing
‘Puzha Malayalam’ a book on status of rivers in Kerala. The
crowd-sourcing of sketches on the theme of ‘my river’ saw
enthusiastic response from 620 global citizens from Austria,
Bahrain, Germany, India, Kuwait, Mexico, Oman, Slovania,
Srilanka and UAE.
14 best entries were selected by an expert panel of artists
and environmentalists consisting of chairman of Kerala
Lalita Kala Academy, CN Karunakaran, Mathrubhumi chief
artist Madanan, cartoonist Venu, Dr. Latha Unnikrishnan of
River research centre, CK Sujith Kumar of Nila foundation
and Jayakumar C of Thanal on the 28th April 2010
at River Retreat, Cheruthuruthy, Kerala.
The selected entries came from Abhay PP (7, Balussery,
India), Divij T (9, Bangalore, India), Eva Koegl (9, Vienna,
Austria), Gayathri PS (10, Thrissur, India), Harikrishnan MV
( 16, Kottakkal, India), Harshitha VV (16, Kannur, India),
Priyamvadha – (11, Pondicherry, India), Rajendran PP (32,
Perumbavoor, India), Rajesh Babu ( 36, Dubai, UAE (2
entries)), Salsabeel(14, Mangalam, India), Sarath P (19,
Kannur, India), Surya Mohan(8 , Thrikanappuram, India) and Vijil (17, Kannur, India)
Three entries from Atheena S Sharma (10, Codacal, India),
Manav D (7, Kozhikode, India) and
Priya Sundaravalli
(41, Pondicherry, India) received special mention from the
judges.
Irrespective of the high number of participation, the judges
commented that the standards of the entry were quite
average. “There were hardly any sketches were ‘river’ came
across as a life experience irrespective of the age group.
Most people attempted to share the knowledge of rivers from
multi-media including TV, rather than from any personal
experience. This seems to have limited the creativity of the
person". Judges commented that the "sketches weren’t
successful to influence a new or unique visual language.
Imagery used was from old-school and there were tendency
amongst some of them to imitate mainstream artists. Most of
the sketches expressed the visible environmental damages of
rivers; however, we hardly noticed any expressions of a rich
and wild river. “
Since most of the people in urban areas don’t get much time
to observe a river, the judging committee unanimously
suggested that they be given opportunities to know a river
better. Based on this, Nila Foundation will be offering a
river journey in partnership with River Research Centre in
Chalakudy and The Blue Yonder, details of which will be
shared shortly.
Prakash M, co-ordinator of Puzha Malayalam commented, “We
were impressed by seeing the over-whelming response from
public. Who would have thought that we would get entries
from as far as Mexico? This once again gives us the
confidence to build up a global movement for rivers. Nila is
probably only a trigger. We congratulate all the winners
whose sketches will be released in public on 5 June 2010.
Some of the sketches that came in the shortlist might also
find place in the book, websites, and other retail products
that we are designing for raising funds for the foundation.”
CN Karunakaran, Madanan and Venu contributed impromptu
sketches of Nila that they saw in front of their eyes from
the river-facing restaurant at
River Retreat. The book
containing the sketches and 14 chapters on status of rivers
in Kerala will be published on the 5 June 2010.
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the above
sketch was done by Abraham John form 7th Inc for the 'Near
the river' series |
