Sonam Kalden, one of our students made this amazing art (the Head of the Buddha) using clay and paper. He creatively used bamboo node and culm to create beautiful patterns on it. His creation is used as one of the important costumes in our short film project with our local youth.
After working on their embroidery for the last ten days, these girls came to display their artwork. As visible, they've tried different designs, shapes, patterns and creations using their basic understanding of stitching.
We are excited to engage a group of local youth in our short film project. The film is about a woman named Kisa Gotami, who comes to seek help from the Buddha. The Buddha taught her in a special way, with a single mustard seed.
As we are deeply engaged in designing simple symbols using needles and threads, we managed to sit, meditate and look inside our minds. At the end of the day, we must decide the values we wanted our young people to learn, without denying the skills.
Currently, we are engaging a group of local youths in learning embroidery skills!
A beautiful piece of art by Sonam Gyelpo. It started with one stitch and ended with thousands of stitches. It is a creation of multi stitching process, perhaps this meticulous process could teach our students, the interdependent reality and illusory nature of their own creation.
Embroidery is a fine art that is rich in the process. As our students pick canvases and needles, they are physically and mentally engaged in a process that is enriching with values, discipline, and achievements. The painstaking steps involved in the process bring students’ attention to focus on the minute details of the design, shapes and patterns that they are working on. Of course, the whole process is time and attention-demanding for our students. Perhaps, such demanding help our students to become more resilient physically, mentally and emotionally.
