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Why we do what we do..........





Head Heart and Hand -I

 There is a gap between the potential and the animate. many times, it is a large gap.
For some us, the potential remains unexplored. For many of us the potential needs a push to get started. For some of us, who are lucky the push comes because we needed it so bad. The World realigns itself for those who aspire.

Umbara style, this story is an offering for valentine's day to our followers. A story that could be a leaf off  of anyone of our own journeys. A sister's tale................

Prateebha is a young mother. Much like most of us. She dissolved in her roles as a wife, daughter and daughter in law and now as a young mother. Dissolve as she may, her identity persisted through   all these roles and asked, nay begged to be noticed.......

How was one to help herself?  Her memories of  being a working woman, a young aspiring designer... nagged her to give space. Motherhood is a boon to some of us in as much as it gives a surge of creative impetus.  For many of us, motherhood is an unlearning. All that we had crystallized into as a person, falls apart to a toothless smile of a innocent creation.

The state of mind of such  transforming roles can leave deep insecure feelings in a woman. Finding herself, re-discovering her identity and getting a firm footing can be a dishearteningly lonely path.

It is in such a time that Pratheeba came to Umbara's wings.

Over, the next 4-5 months we searched for mediums, that spoke to her.... symbols, frames and helping define that which had blurred it's edges. The porosity of the feminine needed newer frames, connects.

What was created in this experiment to reconnect to one's core ....... is presented here as Umbara clothing.

Age old needlework, colors, lines, swirls shades and Jamini Roy's works inspired and cajoled her forward....

We hope you sense the connect. presenting Prateebha's works... on her journey as a designer.....from being a girl to becoming a woman.

needle work: The swirls and the flowers





Of swirls and flowers- hand painted:




Kites to heaven:









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