Venue: National Art Gallery, Malaysia
Year: 2005

• Have you wondered how life would be if it was just BLACK and WHITE, without SOUND and SMELL?

• Why is the grass green, hair black and sky blue?

• Why do the bees buzz, the cows moo and snakes hiss?

• Why would creation unfold itself into the many colors and sound that we experience around us?

• Why do we call a certain place a ‘red light’ area?

• Why is night dark?

• And why is the color blue related to spirituality?
  

In this project, held at National Art Gallery, Malaysia, Jeganathan answered these questions and explained the relationship of sound and colour with the human body through his informal talk.

Jega giving a talk to the visitors.

"Colour is all around us. Even our body has all the nine colours. Our blood is red, bones are white, veins are blue and bile is yellow and so on."

-Quoted by Jeganathan Ramachandram on the existence of colour

Jega demonstrates on how sound travels in the body.

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Venue: Help University College
Year: 2006
Commissioned by: Help University College & Dragonet Diving for Project AWARE.

Corals are very sensitive and they take a long time to grow. However, even one accidental flap of a diver's fin can destroy it forever.

This worrying fact initiated a campaign to educate the public. Held by HELP University College, local dive centre, Dragonet Diving and Symbols House of Natural Art joined hands to make this campaign a success. The campaign was in conjunction with the marine conservation international project campaign named Aquatic World Awareness, Responsibility and Education (Aware).

The four-day campaign, themed 'Stepping On Corals Will Destroy Them Forever', was to create awareness and educate the public and their students on protecting marine life, especially corals.

The heart-shaped kolam depicting the marine life ecosystem like corals and sea creatures, designed by Symbols House of Natural Art's artist, Jeganathan Ramachandram reflected how a single touch or even an accidental swipe of the feet on the design could destroy the beautiful motives, a grim reminder that coral reefs suffer the same consequences as well.

The kolam took about five hours to construct.

The team members and their kolam.

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Commissioned by: Petronas
Year: 2007


"Ethereal Colours of Sound" is a series of paintings based on chakras. This series is under the collection of Prince Court Medical Center, one of the largest private hospitals in Klang Valley which is located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.



What are chakras? How are these paintings done?

Chakras are vibratory points in the body and each one of us possess a specific dominant chakra within us. Using the veenai, Jeganathan plays the name of a person and identifies his/ her sound pattern. Later, this sound pattern is used to specify the sound chakra of that person. Upon client's request or advice from Jeganathan, this sound chakra is translated into a painting, to suit the client's needs. Chakra paintings, according to Jeganathan, possess healing properties and has the ability to create a positive vibration for the owner.

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