Five pillars of the flyover at Bakery Junction in Thiruvananthapuram are now adorned with striking abstract designs. Spirals, circles, lines and whorls of colour create eye-catching designs on the pillars in shades of red, yellow, green, blue, orange, peach and pink. The dusty, drab pillars have been turned into giant canvasses by two artists from the district, Uthamaraj KU and Vinil Chandran.
Implemented by District Nirmithi Kendra, the project involved selecting the artists and giving them the designs and colour schemes for the pillars. Each pillar has a base shade; the tallest one is painted sky blue, while peach and pink have been applied on the second one. The third one has a yellow-green combo and the fourth one, a dark blue shade.
The smallest one has a blue backdrop and a combination of different colours. Uthamaraj KU doing art work on one of the pillars of the flyover at Bakery Junction in Thiruvananthapuram| Photo Credit:SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Uthamaraj says they took around 10 days to complete the work. “We used to post the progress of our work on our Instagram handles (@hodophile_artist, @artist_vinil_) and that got us a lot of attention,” says Uthamaraj, a resident of Malayam.
Vinil is from Chengal near Neyyattinkara in the district. The duo got the project after they did a wall art at the District Collectorate at Kudappanakkunu as part of the Smart City project. “It is centred around the past, present and future of Thiruvananthapuram.
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