27: 2009

Monday, December 7, 2009

News Updates...

A thousand people were born and another thousand died,

And the rest of the world is in total chaos.

someway or the other,i feel we are all really part of those pages turned everyday...

this will be complete with one more piece, about the background of 95% of images we see in those pages... but something just didn't make me do that yet.....

wish i knew what it was.. but i know its gonna happen soon :)...

Friday, October 9, 2009

International Artist Residencey @ Khoj,Delhi

Title:How Long? How Far?

Size:12'x2.5'

Handcut on single sheet. i was lucky enough to be a part of Khoj during this residecy. the whole theme was to expiriment with 'the idea of a book' well the first two weeks went completly blank and then...

the bain wave happened at the middle of one night. "How Long? How Far?..tht was it...

The brainwave - was to showcase the evolution of landscape around me as i moved ahead from places to places for education and work, "survival". and the main thing was to show the architectural bombardment in the name of development. i found it like an irony with the meaning of development...The struggle for survival is moving everyone from rural to urban landscapes.

That is why I call this How Long? How Far? ,mainly like a question within myself and to the humanity around, that how long and how far are we going to operate in these spaces in the name of ...

From these thoughts, i began my work on a single scroll beacuse am talking about a continues evolution without boundaries than a page by page formats.......and since i am talking about landscape, the idea was to carve out a landscape from the scroll.... so the concept is from the side view, where its like a pulse recorder. as the artwork moves towards the cityscape, the pulse gets higher and higher...

....and.... some images from the open day...