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...

and some details ....

..........coming soon....>

.............5 weeks of residency and a week before that- a book i made during the end of this residency..................

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11 comments:

fulcrum said...

beautiful stuff da..

Ravi Ranjan said...

Really good work friend , proud to say we studied together. The iron is hot keep hitting it and shape it , all the best . :)

Nibu G said...

sachin....

it is very interesting you demonstrated a whole city in paper...

thanks for sharing ....

all the best...:)

Rahul Mishra said...

very rare..i comment about ne thing...
cant stop telling u that..I love it sachin...
i see another M C Escher in making..
u r genius...keep it up :)

Anonymous said...

Sachin, this is simply brilliant!! Amazing stuff!!
:)
Archana

Mandakini said...

:) very glad to see this.

and very unhappy i missed the chance to see it for myself.

keep at it!

Devika said...

Hey! Good work :) How's Phooey?

Devika said...

BTW, I thought you might find this ineteresting:

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/01/10-meter-forest.html

Neha Bahuguna said...

Wonderful.....

Sagar said...

Incredible achievement! Perfect blend of form and content.

I also do little bit of origamic architecture. Can share thoughts.

Cheers.

mayur said...

ya man...i agree with all these comments...i wud say some r understatements :)
won't venture into tryin to understand how these r done...unbelievable stuff...so much so that it's almost funny now!