Anu Kutty

Of Green Screens & Full Circles.

After years of being in my parents’ home, somewhere inaccessible in the storage, this green board, has made its way into in my studio room!!🥹

When the four holes were drilled and the board was put up, out of sheer joy, I tried telling the story of this board to the handyman. It is as old as my childhood, I said. He sure wasn’t as enthused as me. 🤷‍♀️

My parents took physics & chemistry classes for the kids in the town where i grew up. (Massive hugs to all the Rasayanikars!) 🫂
And our living room (a fancy word for hall) was a bare room with just this board.
With no other piece of furniture in the room, it served as the board for amma and achan to teach the handful of kids that perched themselves onto the floor.

Why the green board and not the quintessential black board you ask?
Apparently you can wipe off chalk without much chalk dust flying off and glass boards are more durable than black painted off on a wall and...etc is what my achan had explained to a very kutty me. 🤓

Apart from being the board for the classes, it acted as the perfect backdrop for the gazillion photos that achan clicked on his then sony digi-camera. So, much before I got hooked on to the world of advertising and marketing, there existed a green screen back at home! Serendipitous much? 🤭

To have this piece of furniture,
(oh how much more than that word this is),
a glass slab, painted green, framed in aluminium strips at a local shop that has stood silently throughout my growing yrs, coming back to me, is a full circle moment indeed. ✨

Oh btw, amma achan went on to conduct classes in a larger rented space later.
Some furniture thus made its way into the hall.
But this little board stayed on back at home.
They got a new, better(?), bigger board for their classes.
When they wrapped up the classes, the better board and nilkamal chairs from that space got donated to an orphanage.
This one stayed on, even when we shifted homes and ‘no longer needed it’.😬

Chalks -of all colours have been called upon.
To do lists and measurements, I hope to scribble upon this board. 🤞

For Green Glass-boards and Full Circle moments.
Only gratitude. ✨😇🥹