Carrying vibrations within
There is a change,
Hidden
life within cracks
soft and damp
Growing
Emerging out
Let it be, don’t bother
Don’t touch or feel
Fathomless.
Fathomless
Ink and Acrylic on paper.
2016
This Self of mine (Conversation within and around)
It: How’s life?
Deep: Life has become pale white cold.
It: Hmm.
Deep: How I have fucked everything; How mean I have become; Keeping everything within.
It: Maybe you should share things with someone.
Deep: Yes, but she got a new haircut if you know what I mean.
It: I understand and that you deserve it.
Deep: Alright.
It: You are going to die. Oh sorry! I don’t know what I was thinking. I didn’t mean to say that.
Deep: That shouldn’t happen again and, I am sure you mean it. I see you want to be free but I am going to take my time and then leave. Moreover, stop lying to yourself. I know you.
It: Of course you know me. By the way, why are you referring to me as ‘it’.
Deep: Since I am writing to you and ‘It’ is just easier.
It: To be honest, it is good that you have started this. You have been keeping within and that I know inside-out. It’s good to see how you hustle through.
Deep: I am just pretending to be a part. In some circumstances, I breathe.
““““
Deep: I am all over the mattress since morning. What’s the time?
It: Hey, listen! I don’t like to tell you. Anyway, here you go.
~Don’t reply every time.
~Don’t keep me within.
Deep: I remember writing something similar in one of my diaries.
You have just reminded me of a friend.
It: Which is good for you. Ahhh…. (Continues within ‘” This self of mine”)2016
Anonymous: Can I Join?
Building No. 134
Room No. 5
Pen on paper
2016
“I have been working in silence
just vibrations around and when you
start listening
The sound of stillness. There is entropy,
it can be felt
you can’t see
ordered-disordered
high-low
everywhere.”
Entropic mind
Ink on paper
2016
Synchronicity – stills from the present
2017
21:21
00:12
00:21
22:44
03:03
03:21
03:05
21:23
03:12
Dichotomy of focusing on the present
Ink on paper
2016
Inability to remain aware of
ourselves in the present.
Inability to absorb and
understand more than one
truth at a time. The signs
of our immaturity.
“before I gave myself a visit”
Pen and Ink on paper
2017
“It’s never the same, yet it never changes”
The five brains
Acrylic and ink on paper(20×198 inches)
2017
Release of my mind,
taking its forms over space.
One after another
unconscious attempts
without a cause.
A Gaze Without A Cause
80 X 38 In | 203 X 97 Cm
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
A Gaze Without A Cause
2017
The only way out
Is the way deep into the unknown
bright darkness.
80 X 38 In | 203 X 97 Cm
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
Bound To Be Inexistent
2017
Student Kochi Biennale
The event ‘the Falling Leaf: On Entropic Currents’ sought to study how people come together in groups and the different modes in which collaboration takes place. At another level, the purpose of the event ‘The Falling Leaf’ was to problematize the everyday understanding of terms such as ‘artwork’ (for instance where was the artwork – was it the individual works hanging from the walls, the exhibition as a whole, or that which came out of the time spent working on the show and was to be finally displayed in Kochi?), ‘exhibition’ (depending on where one was looking from the event would seem to be an exhibition to some, a studio visit to others and a residency to still others) and ‘curating’ (artist-curators vs curator-artists, the fact that this engagement was a collaborative exercise between artists and a curator).
Proposition for Kochi
In the biennale premises, we will try to project the aftermath of an event that is already over inviting meditations on the afterlife ofanexhibition. What becomes of an exhibition and the works therein post its expiry date? What kind of ideas about those who created it and the artworks that went into it as well as their purpose, would it invite? We will invite the audience to this mental archaeological exercise of putting together the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle to arrive at an understanding of what might have happened? In other words, this would be a fictional ‘Pictionary’ where the audience will have to imagine their own version of a performance/event that is now past. In this way, we hope to continue our commitment to further problematizing the definitions of the artwork by presenting a shadow of the shadow of artwork, an endless mirror effect. Here, we are set to archiving an event and time that can’t be transportedas it isbut lives on in imaginations. We are traversing/transcending a moment in time where each artist is staging an entropy of his/her works, what would their works look like if they were somehow forgotten and discovered after years in a forgotten gallery space?
(curated by Advait Singh)
Entropic life of mine
Drawing and sound installation
Gallery Latitude 28
Pre biennale
2016
Ritual
P.O.P Head Mold, Photos, Drawing
stills from the performance within
2016
The Falling Leaf: On Entropic Currents
Stills from the 14 days in Kochi
Work in process
Site-specific – Student Kochi Biennale
Kochi
2016-2017
Every genuinely modern/
contemporary artwork stages
the process of entropy within
itself. Every such artwork
operates by deforming and
dissolving traditional artistic
forms. It is in this way that an
artwork gives to its spectator
a promise that the system
controlling this spectator’s
individual fate will also be
undermined by entropic
forces and will eventually
dissolve.
~ Boris Groys, Poetics of Entropy
Every genuinely modern/
contemporary artwork stages
the process of entropy within
itself. Every such artwork
operates by deforming and
dissolving traditional artistic
forms. It is in this way that an
artwork gives to its spectator
a promise that the system
controlling this spectator’s
individual fate will also be
undermined by entropic
forces and will eventually
dissolve.
~ Boris Groys, Poetics of Entropy
Pen and ink on hand
made paper
(from the traveling diary)
2016
As growing any form of fungi is a long natural process. We will start with the Initial basic process during our first 10 days, which will further lead Nature to take its course in the coming months of biennale and future. The basic raw material required for the process are:
Paddy Straw 10kg
Saw Dust 3kg
Wheat flour 2kg
Quick lime 2kg
Packaging material like
plastic sheets and waste paper
The fear and misunderstanding of death, fear of the unknown.
The constant need to achieve a sense of security and identity through understanding by definition. An evolved race that we think we are,
would have no need for such concealments.
Mechanics of G.O.D
Ritual
Head Mold
P.O.P
2016
Everything within
ink on paper
2016
Metamorphosis – violin series
Pen on paper
Sound – Penderecki Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
2016
The touch
location: Bhunbhuni
Pen on paper
2016
All the anxiety within,
walking up my head,
Against the darkness
and silence.
Not once, it was
continuous.
My fear of extinction
Fear of Death and
Abandonment,
Highly disordered my
mind
As it was walking
behind…….
Death walk
Pen and Ink on paper
2016
“never presented to be other than what it is,
but not represented completely as it is. ”
Agony
mix media on board(56X32)
2016
“This self of mine”
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