A close look at the work of artist Anjali Venkat on glass. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Copper flowers with a bright red center, complement a green, layered carpet of lotus leaves. Stray red, in the shade of a shield, a few seconds later as more leaves, all made in glass, waiting to catch the eye. It is actually a garden of mysteries. A beautiful one on it.

If ‘is more more’ was a solid expression, it would be a circular piece of glass art, which was created by artist Anjali Venkat. It is in this pseudo -idiom that the glass artist thrives. Every work of art in Apparao Gallery currently demands a second, third and perhaps fourth look. Each look throws something different. They are textured, and attract one, invite one to these layers intentionally and what they can mean.

On the contrary, another beautifully crowd, symmetric circle, pregnant with leaves, neatly stacked one over each other, almost as they thought they were trapped in a soft air.

Anjali says, “Everyday you see it, you find something different.”

In the dance of five elements – fragments of expression, glass becomes the only drain to understand nature and it is almanac. Anjali attracts each element – the earth, water, air, fire and place – to create the art of glass and fabric that gives the beauty and momentum of nature to form. Each room in the gallery is now home to the interpretation of the artist of each element.

Anjali Venkat

Anjali has been working with glass in the last 30 years. To work with a medium that is beautiful, it is equally stubborn; Risk and likely to break as it is complicated, there is no meaning. She says, “Without a challenge, it’s no fun. I am doing this because it is difficult. ,

“It sounds abstract and easy, but every piece of glass that is placed inside is made with intentions,” she says. The show has been working for 11 months. Anjali, who now lives in Singapore, uses only the recurred glass and clothes for her work. A lot of glass is sour from used bottles, broken windows or shops.

Sangam | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Her conversation with the fabric has recently, and is also sources from discs. Finely chopped fabric cascades, showing colored gradients, make it for canvas inspired by water element. Fabric work linear is still textured. There are transparent, thin slipper curtains that make the air embodied, or a roof of dark purple pieces of glass hanging from above that represents space and woven glass that resembles water, which rely a lot on the physics and chemistry of the medium. “When I work with glass, it contains a little science. In glass, construction is a skill. Anjali adds.

The artist is often surprised with each composition. “With glass, you never know how it is going to exit. Although it is in the kiln, it can break or change the color … but also fun, “she says,” when the kiln deity takes the side of you, some luxurious you come out without expecting it. ,

Secret Park | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Apprao Galiaries by 8 March, on viewing in Nungambakkam