IDOL MAKERS OF KOLKATA

The clay idolmakers of Kolkata practice a unique art an art that comes with the promise of dissolution and regenerationa metaphor of life itself with its impermanence and ebbandflow The painstaking and elaborate process of the making of the idols the festivities that grow around the worship of the deities that these idols represent and the ultimate farewell of the deity in immersion when the strawwoodclay structures that typify divinity disintegrate and dissolve in water and earthare woven together in an exploration of the lives of these master craftsmen who go through hardships and privation in order to be true to their art