1. Art therapy

2. Pulse Polio Awareness

3. Awards and recognition

4. References

5. External links

The Sanitary garden is an art exhibition consisting of artworks made from bathroom and toilet items such as lavatory seats and ballcocks.^[1][2][3][4]

Kala Sagar (Hindi word which means Ocean of Art) is the unique government museum where world’s largest collection of art created purely from damaged, discarded or waste sanitary ware items is exhibited. The whole collection of art pieces are created by only one artist Mr. Vijay Pal Goel (Age 50 years) who is creating this unique art since 1994 and is a non government employee.KALA SAGAR is situated in the sector 36-D, Chandigarh UT, INDIA.

The main objective of the artist behind this unique art is to generate mass awareness for reuse of waste materials for environment protection, treatment of the special children and established a tourist place for the special people such as mentally challenged people, visually impaired and physically handicapped.

This art is created by Mr. Vijay Pal Goel (Age 50 years). He was a private sanitary contractor. In the year 1994, an idea struck his mind and He started collecting waste sanitary material and converted it into marvelous art pieces. He is an uneducated person. He also never learned art making from any school, college or from any teacher.

The distinctiveness of the art is that whole collection of art pieces are shaped and created only from sanitary waste item. The sanitary waste items means discarded and damaged sanitary products used in bathroom, kitchen and public health such as water storage tanks, pipes, tapes, fountains, chinaware etc.

All the art pieces are created without using melting, molding, cementation, and carving techniques. This feature of the art makes it different from all other kind of art forms in the world.

The art pieces are created by arranging and assembling the different sanitary waste pieces and giving it a desired shape. For example: Airplanes, train, animal figures, telephones, human statues etc.

The size of the art pieces varies from 0.5 inch to 20 feet and depends upon of availability of the waste material. Presently the numbers of art pieces are around 300.

The other important fact of this art is that, this is the first kind of art form which is completely eco-friendly. Nothing gets wasted in teaching and creating this form of art. Here “nothing” means nothing. Every thing used in this art is only waste and discarded material. The same components of one art pieces can be easily converted into other and then again dismantled into the components.

Art therapy

The artist Mr. Vijay Pal Goel and his wife Mrs. Madhu Goel performed a study on the special children of the Government Institute for Mentally Retarded Children and 7 other special schools in the Chandigarh, INDIA.

The study covers around 500 Mentally Retarded Children for a time period 2001-2002. During this period these children were taught this unique art form.

The result of this study was very amazing. There is a noticeable change in the children behaviors. They became calmer and focused with enhancement in creativity skill and physical strength.

In year 2002, The Department of Social Welfare, Chandigarh Administration also appointed the Mr. Goel as full-time consultant for the rehabilitation of persons with disabilities on a very meager honorarium.

They also conducted a similar workshop in the Govt. Institute for Blind, Sector 26, Chandigarh.

Now it is not very astounding to say that, this is the only art technique which can be enjoyed and also created by the Mentally Retarded and visually impaired children and Kala Sagar is the first museum for these special children.

Mr. and Mrs. Goel were also certified and awarded by the several govt. and other agencies for their innovative therapy and contribution in this field.

But without any funding and monetary support Mr. and Mrs. Goel were unable to continue their art therapy.

Pulse Polio Awareness

In the year 2000, the Health Minister, Punjab, INDIA impressed by the innovative art, requested the artist to construct a tableau on Pulse Polio for mass Awareness and the tableau was roamed in all the 17 districts covering almost all the cities and town and the remote areas of the Punjab. A large number of children were also vaccinated during this campaign.

Awards and recognition

The artist was honoured by The Governor of Punjab with the prestigious State Award on the Indian Independence Day (15 August 1998) for his tremendous contribution and excellent work in the field of art.

On 4th, September 1998, the Chandigarh administration persuaded the artist to donate whole his art collection to the government for the purpose of tourism promotion and a permanent exhibition of the art pieces was exhibited at the government museum Kala Sagar started in sector 36-D, Chandigarh UT. This museum is specially established only for the display of the unique art.

The Director, Government Institute for Mentally Retarded Children, Chandigarh honored him for his art therapy program.

The Director, Department of Environment, Chandigarh Administration also honored the artist for his unique way of waste management.

The Director, Department of Social Welfare, Chandigarh Administration UT honored him for his art therapy program.

The President, Parent Association of Mentally Retarded Children honored him for his art therapy program.

The artist is also certified by the several other prestigious awards (such as Rotary Club Midtown, etc.) for his tremendous social work.

References

External links

• KALA SAGAR: A Museum with Art from Sanitary Waste

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• Florian Pick
• Florian Planker
• Florian Porcius
• Florian Prey
• Florian Prohart
• Florian Pronold
• Florian Pârvu
• Florian reichstadter
• Florian Reichstaedter
• Florian Rieder
• Florian Roller
• Florian Roski
• Florian Ruck
• Florian Schikowski
• Florian Schnorrenberg
• Florian Sittsam
• Florian Sotoca
• Florian Steger
• Florian Stetter
• Florian Stofer
• Florian Stoppany
• Florian Stork
• Florian Stritzel
• Florian Stępniak