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He's an artist, designer and traveller. That's briefly
introducing him. Here's the detail - He does sculpture, Art fabrication, Pen and Ink
Sketches, Watercolors, Originals and Prints, Furniture-Metal, Wood, Glass, Metal
fabrication, Slide Shows, Lectures and Design Consulting. Brian Canevari, actually does
more than all this. He studies 'life'. And as a part of Rotary's Group Study Exchange
programme, that's exactly what he was doing in Chennai. Well, Brian does not stay at one
place. He strays away in his quest for newer places, newer cultures, art, design and way
of life. And all that he does, he does under the umbrella of B.C.FRAME, that's short for
Brian Canevari Functional Research and Mechanical Experimentation, a combination of skills
of the mind and the hands. He's a tourist. But he carries no camera. Go through his
scrapbook and you can see Chennai come to life.
 It starts with a view of the city from his hotel window, then gates
of the different families he has stayed with, parts that Sundaram Fasteners produces, the
Polio Plus campaign, IIT, Kakkum Karangal, plan of a school adopted by Rotary, places
around Chennai, Kancheepuram, Vellore, sketches of tables and benches used in classrooms
here, Egmore Gallery, Anna Nagar Tower, Indian Council for Child Welfare, Plan of a
medical centre. Theosophical Society, the Madras University building and the PWD building
on the Marina, the Ceramic factory at parrys, Qwikys. Thousand Lights mosque, temples and
other structures in Chennai, Mahabalipuram and Pondicherry, Botanical gardens in Ooty and
more.
He loves to observe. He once walked from
Spencer's Plaza to Yeses Supermarket in Anna Nagar, just because he wanted to observe a
cross section of the people in their neighbourhood, the various cars, people and their
businesses, including tailors on the road side, who he says, remind him of his grandmother
who was a seamstress, who used to work on similar machines. He loved the train ride to
Ooty and his face lights up with excitement, as he describes his experiences at halts at
the stations. "Sa-Mo-Sa" he says, taking off on the person selling snacks at the
stations. "He was tempting me to buy one. The way he said it again and again.
Sa-Mo-Sa " recalls Brian.
Graduating in Architecture, travelling around
Africa and 17 European countries, Brian (e-mail: bcsculptor@yahoo.com) always wanted to
visit India, so when the chance came, he jumped at it. And after Chennai, he now wants to
go to Kerala, especially after seeing glimpses of it at Dakshina Chitra. One of his latest
achievements before making the trip, was when his model got selected for the 'First Night'
(which the Americans celebrate on the New Year's Eve) of 2000. Using recycled material and
construction waste products, he made an actual size model for he felt that a miniature
would not be very convincing. Illustrating the model, he excitedly explains how hands
represented 'giving' as easier than 'taking', morals and abilities directing a person
towards goals, signified by a torch on the top. Well, Brian, that's creativity, at its
peak.
Nature
(Source: The Hindu)
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