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Adil is an architectural graduate from Mumbai who graduated in Urban Design from the University of Houston, Texas.
After eleven years of activities in the fields of interior refurbishing and architecture in Bombay, he decided to "take a break" and study ceramics at the Golden Bridge Pottery in Pondicherry. The rest may not necessarily be history, but.. presently Adil resides in Aspiration, and teaches art and pottery in Auroville's Transition School.

Adil on his work
"Clay, for me, is something that wishes but knows not quite how to be.. A nameless movement, an uncaught idea, - calling the adventure of consciousness and joy.. (from Sri Aurobindo's 'Savitri').
So there I am, often overwhelmed by varied emotions, but the other side of me  - the technician, the maker -  takes over and makes a vessel, which at least tries to contain some of that feeling. No matter what, that side of me is ready to go to work on the materials of experience, the uncertainty of results, which are the tactile forms and surfaces in my work. These are probably not related to any earth-shattering past-life experiences or such gained here, but  inspiration does lurk within the contours of the canyons and anthills of Auroville.." 

The uncertainty of results is always a major turn-on in pottery.., from the arbitrary combining of varied materials in unmeasured amounts for everything from coloured clay bodies and engobes, to slips and glazes. Abstraction in my work will always play with the convention of the vessel as a metaphor for the body, - the challenge is to see if the unorthodoxy, the naiveté and the risks show through....and ultimately balance within the softer focus of functional pottery."

With this great truth as the background, as a constant support, ... that we are witnessing the birth of a new world - ...that we can participate in it, ...that we can become it.." (from Conversations with the Mother)

adil@auroville.org.in                Article featured in INSIDE OUTSIDE Feb 2000

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