Exhibition at AIFACS

Participating in the All India Studio Potters Exhibition.

10th to 16th March 2018,

11am to 7pm

1, Rafi Marg, New Delhi, India

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Chicken dish on my handmade ceramic plate

Paneer and olive stuffed chicken breast with beetroot puree on my own handmade ceramic plate

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I am

I practiced
Meditation
Dilligently

This open lotus
The crown

God’s are dead pictures on our walls
I am just human

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Conscious Selling

It’s such a ‘going outward’ activity for someone to sell. At a shop, perhaps, waiting for the next potential customer to come by and show interest. Talking to them about my work/product and the art process behind each piece. Giving them some time and space to consider buying without pressure. Sometimes entertaining two customers at the same time.

How do you make sure you do sales in the most conscious way, with the best intentions at heart? Without competing with the neighbour or opposite shop, perhaps, selling a similar product. Always putting your best foot forward. The most conscious way of selling. On ocassion, being available quietly for the customer, when they are looking or interested in/admiring the product. They might choose something and conversate with you about it. Might take a picture to show their husband/wife/friends or might immediately make up their minds to purchase it.

Conscious selling – the whole approach is very outward. Being available for the best. The intention is not sale but best for both self and customer. As you have already created the best possible product (good quality, eco friendly, organic, sustainable etc.) And have put it up on a shelf/display with the most reasonable price. You can only be available as someone present in that space in waiting. With no pressure on the self to make the sale. And no outward pressure to buy the product. In the most possitive and social way possible. Open to conversation.

Keeping the pricing reasonable/affordable and ‘fair trade’ is important. Along with cost and profit calculations, one easy way to judge is asking yourself how much you yourself would like to pay at a shop as a buyer of the same.

On making the sale, it’s best to have other employees/another person packing the product and billing while you can conversate and network/get to know your customer better.

If your neighbours are aggressive. Then minding your own business is your way of ‘peace’. Unless you want to invade their shop with some nuclear missiles!! 🙂

Perhaps you have read or heard that sales should be customer centeric or ‘customer before self’. If you truly are customer centeric in a TOTAL way, you will end up gifting the product to the customer. Why charge them at all? (If you only think of their best).

The right approach/word should be conscious sale. A more wholesome and balanced ‘self and customer centeric’ approach.

Perhaps the ‘customer-centeric’ technique/approach is more important as a training/teaching/learning tool/way for begginers on the journey towards conscious selling.

There is always a unique understanding/answer to each sales situation. All answers are not here in this article ofcourse. And we do the best we can every moment.

The Vase @Fabcafe

As part of our project RACU (Restaurants and Ceramics Universal) we have been exhibiting ceramics at the Fabcafe, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India.

Handmade Ceramic Vases
JANUARY to MARCH 2019

We have curated some beautiful vases at the Fabcafe, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India. These are expressions in ceramic by 8 ceramists from the city of Delhi NCR. Please contact Divyam at +918527402164 if you wish to purchase the vases.

 

1. Alpana Gambhir: Celebrating love with raku.

2. Divyam Surabhi: Blue wedding vase. It’s quite an unusual method to create a pot and divide it into 2 halves. I tremendously enjoy putting the dots on this vase. The name ‘wedding’ because I am a bride to be (Dec 2019).

3. Priyanka Sharma: A vase is one of the most natural forms that emerges out of a potter’s hands on the wheel. It is also amongst the most ancient shapes that can be traced back to the oldest civilizations. Yet it is fascinating because it still offers limitless possibilities. I love to experiment with vases, not only with their shapes but also with countless ways in which I can express my freedom through glazes.

4. Rekha Bajpe Aggarwal: The inspiration is melting rocks, as if pulled out from the inner core of molten lava within. The form is very organic and the effect of melting ash gives it an eternal feel. It is fired to a high temperature. It is recommended to use this vase for dry flower arrangements only.

5. Seema Kalra: Every now and then I like to challenge myself…and this double walled vase with cutwork is the result of one such moment. As a functional art piece to be placed on your centre table by itself or for an ikebana arrangement.

6. Shehla Hashmi: Outer surface is engraved. Have used a white matt glaze as flowers of any colour will look alive in it.

7. Sneh Sharma: Bottle shaped vase with irregular fluting. Simple blue glaze flowing down the uneven surface.

8. Supriya Kanwar: This particular piece is wheel thrown and I have used stains and glazes. It’s a high temperature stoneware pot.

India on my plate @ Fabcafe

AN EXHIBITION OF CERAMIC PLATTERS

July to Oct 2018

We invited 6 ceramists to create platters on the theme ‘India on my plate’.
These are being displayed at the beautiful restaurant Fabcafe in Vasant Kunj, Delhi, India. The theme was inspired by the healthy Indian food that the cafe wins awards for. A plate full of India – India on my plate. Here is what the ceramists created and have to say about them. 8 to 10 inch platters, priced between Rs3000 and Rs5000.

1. Alpana Gambhir: The Indian art of alpana on a traditional Indian thali. That’s my India on a plate.

2. Ambika Mehta: Warli Tribal Art. Warli art is a beautiful folk art of Maharashtra, traditionally created by the tribal women. Tribals are the Warli and Malkhar koli tribes found on the northern outskirts of Mumbai, in western India…Warli paintings are painted white on mud walls.

3. Divyam Surabhi: The Ashoka Chakra from the flag of India is the inspiration behind this platter. Having 24 spokes representing – hope, love, courage, patience, peacefulness, kindness, goodness, supreme wisdom, justice, truthfulness… I hope each of us is blessed with these qualities.

4. Seema Kalra: Shibori – This platter is a part of a series inspired by the craftsmanship of Indian artisans who are incorporating Japanese shibori techniques to create contemporary hand dyed fabrics.

5. Shehla Hashmi: India has varied vegetation in amazing forms and textures which I like painting on my platters. I have used under glaze to paint the leaves. On top is a clear glaze fired to 1280 degrees.

6. Shreya Alok Gupta: India is full of beautiful textiles with handmade designs that are block printed, woven, embroidered together. It is this intricately handmade feel that I have tried to capture on my plate with a traditional block print design which is being used to print on cottons since many centuries in India now. After all, what other material than clay can one use to keep this textile craft alive and remembered; because ceramics itself has a life of more than a thousand years. The design is called a ‘Paisley’ and to make it three dimensional on the plate, I have slip trailed it and glazed it with a traditional ash glaze.

Handmade Mugs in Cafes

architecture photography for om made cafe bangalore

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st to 15th July 2018, ‘Handmade mugs in cafes’ was the latest event from ourAs project http://www.handmadeceramics.in. This project aims at promoting handmade ceramics in restaurants. Usually restaurants use moulded ceramics which are replicas. Handmade ceramics are unique pieces, individually hand-crafted by ceramists. It’s very on trend today to have your tableware designed around the food you serve in a restaurant. Many chefs are taking to working with ceramists closely to get unique individual tableware created.

This time round we were promoting unique signed mugs in cafes. We had 3 popular cafes sign up for this event – Another Fine Day in Gurgaon, Om made cafe in Bangalore and Third wave coffee roasters again in Bangalore.

The ceramists who participated – Anubha Jaswal, Nikita Dawar, Seema Kalra and Shubha V Raghavan.

You could walk into any of the cafes and order your usual coffee but in handmade signed mugs at a promotional price of Rs300 and take the mug home with you.

Contact us if you wish to get custom handmade ceramics created! 😀

Ceramic Display at Fabcafe

As part of the RACU:Restaurants and Ceramics Universal project and event, we have displayed ceramics at Fabcafe. This is one step further on our vision of having more handmade tableware in restaurants.

Fabcafe is an awarded restaurant in New Delhi, India. Serving healthy, organic food inside the Fabindia store in vasant kunj.

Conscious Administration/Governance. Who is in Control? Who is God?

On my return to Delhi few years ago. I found that the collective has many questions. Is it telepathy/thought flow/mind space/controlled emotions/mind/mental/intellect/tuning/connection/energy/structures? Who is in control? Who is God? How does this world work? Who runs it?

Consciousness is One. There is also Individual. There is personality. Conscious choices.

Consciousness is beyond mind/heart/body. There is a collective consciousness. That is where we are One. That is Godliness. Qualitative human excellence.

I am in tune with that. We make collective choices to change who we are as human beings. My path to accepting that I must become President of Asia 2040 is not an individual choice. It is something brought upon me because of the journey. This is the path forward.

On my return I kept telling the collective conscious as a conclusion to discussions/questions being asked that they must join politics/political parties and make changes on an administrative level for the best of this planet. To the ones who want to find out who is in control. I joke now and say dial 100 number for the police control room. 😀

I was busy with my ceramic work, Looking for my husband and dealing with my family situation.

Those discussions have boomeranged. I knew of taking responsibility before (having the ability to respond). Yes I have finished my spiritual practice/learning/experience. Had so much of enlightenment, that I realized, sitting on this mountain can be an addiction. I decided to walk around and look at what else is going on.

Yes I know that changes need to manifest. We make changes as a collective. To make these changes in the most educated/organized/legal method is to join politics. Human beings from cave men have gotten thus far. We have paper notes as currency for money and not barter system. We have organized ourselves into administration/governance/countries/governments.

Conscious governance/administration is the path. Not just being used by this collective consciousness.

As an individual consciousness. I have worked many years and awakened myself. Died before death many times. This qualitative being has been shared time and time again with others who are awakened/chosen through the collective consciousness. I ask for a Department of Enlightenment to protect myself from other not-conscious beings. I am compassionate towards them. Choosing peace even when they want to fight. I don’t believe in the old Gandhian method of give your other cheek. That is not the world we live in. We need to step back to protect ourselves. I distance myself to start with and continue communication in a more formal tone/method.

Control/God?

Who is in control of a situation? Who is in charge? Who is responsible? The collective is together, we are responsible. We have to constantly change. When we know better we do better. There is no one answer. There are so many different dimensions/realities/levels/planes of existence at play/work together. I chose not to just play and consider it a game. It is life, we have to live it. Our choices are important to narrow down to our sense of reality/truth. Otherwise legality will not have any value. I give power to the Prime Ministers/Presidents by the choices I make. On a legal level they are choosen by the collective through the method of fair and free elections.

I am in control of my choices. As a conscious being (This is not conscious/unconscious medically speaking. Or conscious/aware from the educated perspective but conscious from the spirtual/higher plane of existance). Spiritual consciousness includes experiencing being the creator/maker.

People want to know who is incharge? Who is the decision maker? Each of us is and on a legal level we give power to the elected to make decisions for us. I am your spiritual guide ’cause I am part of this Godliness that prevails on this Earth – the collective superconsciousness. Yes we guide you. You have a body that is physical/material. There is non-material that guides you.

If you try to fight the spiritual/spirit/soul in yourself…you just hurt your ownselves and the collective. You all want to become Gods. The method is not through becoming Presidents/Prime Ministers (to rule and have power over people. It will only be a power trip). Not through becoming the richest men/women (it will only be a money trip). Not through becoming the sexiest/most famous actor/supermodel (it will only be a sex trip). You can enjoy these trips. But the qualitative human journey/path is inward. The self to the self. Discovering ‘who I am’. Becoming a God, inside. To want to be a God in the body for others is another trip. The spiritual trip. Go beyond that trip. Work in the world. Humankind. Consciousness. The planet. Don’t follow my words or whatever little you understand of it. Find yourself! 😀

Good Governance

Good Governance on my mind
It’s not sacrifice and service.
It’s not – be servant and not master. Be aware of power trips
It’s not – Desh Bhakti

It is the best for the individual and the nation.
It is master of oneself.
Working from the best in oneself for the best.
It’s conscious governance.

Developed during her pottery training in Bangkok, the signature ‘swirl’ style by Divyam Surabhi.