Visual Ethnography of Beaten Brass Ghaagar


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Creator/Artist: Rucha Vakhariya

Category: Communication Design

Document: Design Research

Batch: 2014-2016

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Nina Sabnani


Detailed Description

Beaten brass vessels especially Ghaagars and Handas are a very famous part of Barshi, a town in Maharashtra which also is my hometown. These vessels have been a part of childhood and growing up years. We use these to store water till date. This project gave me an opportunity to look into the making of these Ghaagars. I was lucky enough to be hosted by a wonderful family by the name of Gore who have been providing these vessels to my family shop for more than five decades now. I learnt about the entire process of making the Ghaagar. And also about a life very different than mine.Visual ethnography was a completely new field for me. With the excitement of a new subject and an age old tradition to explore I embarked on this journey of understanding the ‘Thokyachi Ghaagar’.