Interview: Karthik

 Crafting with Colour

A Video Conversation with Karthik

Print.Able is happy to introduce Karthik who is being interviewed in this post. The interview is in Kannada, and we include a short clip from the video at the end of this post.

The video opens with a scene of Karthik at a table covered in newspaper covered in various colourful painted objects – diyas, statues of Ganesha, a candle holder. He is painting a diya. You can tell that he is concentrating very hard on his task, holding the small clay lamp with care, and turning it as he paints.

The interviewers first question (not heard) is ‘What are you doing?’

We share the clip from this point to when he talks about the colours he likes.

The conversation in the video has been transcribed to English text, and is appended below.  

It closes with the interviewer asking what he likes to paint, other than the diyas, and our eye is drawn back to the range of colourful, carefully painted objects on the table. 

The Interview, transcribed and translated from Kannada into English

Interviewer: Hi Karthik.

Karthik: Hi.

Interviewer: What are you doing?

Karthik: Paint.

Interviewer: You’re painting? What are you painting … hmm? What are you painting?

Karthik: Diyas painting.

Interviewer: Diyas painting.  Why are you doing that?

Karthik: I want to sell them.

Interviewer: Sell them, is it? When do you paint the diyas?  Hmm? Do you like painting?

Karthik: I like painting very much.

Interviewer: Who taught you? Who taught you to paint?

Karthik: My mother taught me.

Interviewer: Your mother taught you, is it? Does she also paint with you?

Karthik: Amma also paints with me.

Interviewer: Who tells you what colours to use? Do you select them or does your mother?

Karthik: My mother selects

Interviewer: Do you also select?

Karthik: Yes, I’m selecting the colours.

Interviewer: What colour do you like?

Karthik: I’m using gold at present.

Interviewer: Oh, you’re using gold.  What other colours do you like?

Karthik: After this I’m going to use pink.

Interviewer: Pink, is it? After painting you sell the diyas.  What do you do with the money?

Karthik: How much money dad?  No money.

Interviewer: No money? Fine. Do you paint only diyas? What else do you paint?  Can you tell me what are all the different things you paint?

The Clip:

 

(Turn on your volume)