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A Valentine's Day workshop

18th February 2014. We gathered for our February meeting at ABK AOTS Dosokai where our senior member Sensei Padma Swaminathan took us through two lovely compositions, with her expressions of Valentine's Day.

The ladies then looked to create their own expressions of Valentine's Day, and the variety was enjoyable and eye opening.

It was a  morning filled with roses and the colour red!

To cap a creative session, Padma sensei gave us all valuable tips on preserving the freshness of flowers, bleaching and colouring as well, via handouts, which will be most useful to all of us.

We meet in March for our exhibition at ABK and we also welcome Valeria from Auroville, who will be demonstrating.
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January election meeting and workshop Sixteen members attended our first meeting of the year, which was also our election meeting.

The Group condoled the passing away of Mrs. Remani Nambiar, a Sogetsu member from Hyderabad.  We had the honour of experiencing a demonstration from her in Chennai. in October of 2012.

Malathi sensei announced the biannual exhibition of sogetsu Bengaluru on Feb. 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and their invitation to participate in it by any
member whosoever wishes to do so. She then introduced tow of our relatively newer members - Zaitoon and Kalpana.

The following were elected as office bearers unanimously for the Chennai Sogetsu Study Group for the year 2014 to 2016.:-
a) ChairPerson: Mrs. Malathi Pandurang.
b) Deputy Chair Person: Mrs. Ambika

c) Programmes in charge: Mrs. Chitra Thiagarajan. d) Treasurer: Mrs. Prerana Mehta. This was followed by a demonstration by Malathi, and a workshop after that.

Malathi sensei's demonstration was a nice way to begin 2014 for the Study Group!

She gave us an artist's view on how one can imagine and then express yourself with your material.

She then also demonstrated how the vase can guide your composition, and different expressions by choice of material.

The picture below does not do justice to the first arrangement, which kept the students rivetted as she explained the process of composition.

She explained -

"I used a container, which was like a structure, a combination of shapes, and I recalled Chitra's demonstration of the use of line in architecture and interiors and the relevance to Ikebana.  My vase had four facets, like 4 elevations and hence I imagined it to be a house which caught my attention with its unusual shape and I wondered who lives there?  Are they friendly, warm, hospitable?  So I approached the house and rang the bell, to my surprise the window opened as well as the door and the two carnations popped out as if asking me 'who's that' and they were really warm and so the red carnations and the interior wall was a lovely green-represented by the leaf.  There was wellbeing and joy in the house, which spread like the limoneum, in my imagination. "

The members then tried their hand at free expression.

We meet again on Feb. 18th at 11am at ABK premises. There will be a demonstration by Mrs. Padma Swaminathan, followed by a workshop, details to be announced later.
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