There's this guy, Marcel, who makes bread and earn money to create a school providing free education to the poor kids in Varanasi, India. His story urged me to ask myself questions; What can I make ? What is really worth making ? And where is the connection of making things and doing good things?
And then there's this mini gallery space in Hong Kong called "Frontside Gallery", especially for small scale artworks to encourage affordable art collection beyond the circles of collectors or elites.
So with these questions and opportunities, plus a few blank handkerchief, I made a visit to Varanasi planning to do something with the children for this exhibition. The idea was to introduce a natural dye workshop as an creative experience, and also, as a craft making idea for connecting them with others. All materials involved are sourced local, i.e onion skin left over from market, coffee residue from restaurant. And then the handkerchiefs will be exhibited and sold in the gallery, raising funding back to this school they're going.
And to specifically address this concept of "affordability" in the artspace, all the handkerchiefs will be open for pricing: which means basically that you take what you can give. Or say, you give for the amount of changes you'd like to make.
The mini exhibition will begin this friday 6 April, and will last till the end of the month. Please see if you could afford a visit and find out what can be taken, or given.
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