A yearlong observatory for an occupation of time
The first piece of paper that I folded to make an object took the shape of a paper plane. Birds and fish followed, as extra-curricular classes in school offered lessons on how to transform a square piece of paper into weightless, multi-dimensional objects that bore likeness to their functional/live counterparts. There was something exciting about … Continue reading Between Pleats
Formative drawing and painting lessons often resort to essentialist representations of “village life” as if it was a monolithic aspiration for a simultaneously extant and bygone simplicity; it almost always constitutes a bullock cart, a farmer, a field, a small hut and a clear horizon (or a similar tableau). These staples come to define a … Continue reading What We Eat
The title ‘Five Million Incidents’ evokes a numerical anxiety, and an impossibility in its rejection of conceivable time and quantity. At the same time, it points to the very real possibility of horizontal simultaneity where incidents overlap and even cause each other’s happening. This osmosis of space and time becomes a neural network of sorts, … Continue reading The Rhizome
