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Visiting Bat Trang Ceramic Village with NAME Art Space

Bat Trang ceramic & pottery village is on the left bank of Hong river and about 10 km from Hanoi in East (in Gia Lam District, Hanoi). This ceramic & pottery village is an interesting attraction in Hanoi that tourists should not ignore. It is the most ancient and famous ceramic & pottery village of Vietnam and is constantly developing.

Ash Tray
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1-2-3 Start making ceramic items

3 Pro ceramic artists


Colouring after drying
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Girls we met at the same workshop, they make faces that look so much alike their faces... So good!



A youtube video.

Shooting for Multimedia Poetry on Friday 27th 2012

First shooting day for Multimedia Poetry project by Susmita Paul and Vuong Bich Ngoc on Friday 27th 2012

Sundays @ 12 noon

Some nights the elbow stretches straight, running
Over the edge –
A perfect tout feeling at the shoulder
The elbow angled at that perfect degree
Inwards and paused. The palms meet gravity,

Hanging
Half open unlaced mushthi*1. No cribbing
In dreams. I carried the hundred bells threaded to the feet
Half across the globe, and then retraced;
Spaces between them widening, emptying
With the moon-tides. The mirror

Still
Has a say. Hypnosis I dream. It
Tugs and pulls and draws me into
That hall. No one sees, no one feels. Ghost-busting
Is not their call. Only once your eyes

Fall
On the mirror. The bells make a call. Did you feel
The glass quivering? I spread my feet
Across the new floor, unable
To remember the position I take

Ardhamandala
Purnamandala
Sthanaka*2

*1 mushthi is a hand gesture used in Bharatnatyam, an Indian classical dance. It means ‘closed fist’.
*2 ardhamandala, purnamandala and sthanaka are the three different positions of standing in Bharatnatyam.


© Susmita Paul 2012



Indian traditional dance by Namrata Gupta at Natarani Theater, Ahmedabad, India

Sketchy days with Artists @ NAME | Art Space

Enjoying happy days at NAME 's Art creativity space. Sketching, relaxing, outdoor activities with NAME | Art Space - Artist Residency - Vietnam


Enjoying at the floating house on Red River


View of Long Bien Bridge



Three lovely ladies