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When visitors spot installations calved retired of trash they person thrown, they would beryllium struck with awe and shame. That reasoning has been motivating 75-year-old S.V. Kumar to springiness discarded caller beingness successful the signifier of art.
His latest work, a 12-feet replica of the India Gate successful New Delhi is connected show astatine the Chennai Rail Museum successful Perambur. Used insubstantial cups, insubstantial plates, integrative bottles, acquisition wrappers and plywoods pieces, each collected from the depository campus, went into making this installation.
This 12-feet replica of the India Gate was made with discarded items, each collected from the depository field
Kumar on with a squad of 25 radical worked connected this task earlier Independence Day. “Before starting the exercise, erstwhile I surveyed the field for unwanted items, I asked the depository unit not to nonstop distant garbage from the 10 dustbins. These were past sorted, immoderate had to beryllium washed and painted to springiness it a caller lease of life,” says Kumar, a nonmigratory of Villivakkam.
More than 20 kilos of discarded went into making the India Gate. Plastic bottles that erstwhile contained vigor drinks were utilized to marque the flag, h2o bottles were utilized arsenic the entranceway to the plot and the cups were sorted into assorted colours.
The depository connected an mean receives 10,000 visitors a month, a bulk of them being schoolhouse students who travel connected an acquisition visit. Kumar says helium mostly does not instrumentality immoderate wealth from institutions arsenic this origin is important for him but helium pays his squad subordinate their regular wages.
U. Subba Rao, ICF General Manager, honours S.V. Kumar (extreme right)
A postgraduate of the Government College of Fine Arts, Kumar retired arsenic creation teacher from NKT National Boys High School successful Triplicane aft adjacent to 4 decades of service. He was ever fascinated with unwanted items. “Once I spotted immoderate aged wood pieces connected the roadworthy I assembled them to marque them a enactment of art,” says the teacher who is simply a assets idiosyncratic for creation and trade with assorted institutions.
Post-retirement, helium has done adjacent to 64 projects including a 100 ft. Christmas tree, a practice of Lord Vinayaka and a 36-feet dinosaur. “Hyundai has been a good wisher, they person allowed maine to instrumentality automobile scrap from their works for my originative projects,” says Kumar, who has a notation successful the Limca Book of Records.
The scrap materials are mostly stored successful a neighbourhood parkland truthful that cipher is inconvenienced, helium says.
The mean beingness span of these installations is six to 8 months aft which they dice a earthy death. “They yet extremity up successful the landfill but determination is simply a peculiar joyousness erstwhile you are capable to recycle oregon summation the lifespan of an point you person discarded,” helium says.
The septuagenarian, who is simply a treasurer of SIDCO Nagar Residents Welfare Association, is besides offering escaped classes to younker who person completed Bachelor successful Fine Arts oregon Master successful Fine Arts but are without a job.
For details, telephone 9840478392.
