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
