Wednesday, January 13, 2010

kiki's first day of sniffing & exploring my flat

sparrow sitting across me at the bangalore airport

looking for nectar

colours and textures of the natural world



bangalore: wholesale flower market in the old city




bangalore: a textile workshop in the old city

It takes him a month to arrange all those white and golden-coloured threads so that the machine can then produce a particular pattern of weave.



The textile workshops in the old city of Bangalore are struggling to survive as cheaper textiles from China flood into India and as they are no longer considered by many policy-makers as important to Bangalore's urban economy