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Kindergarten graduation photo7/1/2023
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Map of dc lockdown7/1/2023 That requires me to research and travel the length and breadth of my city regularly, often with tourists coming into Mumbai. My relationship with my surroundings has evolved and expanded over the years, primarily because I also conduct heritage tours in Mumbai. Going from a fast-paced life on the road to being grounded at home for several months has been a shock, yet welcome in many ways: It has slowed down time and made us more alert to the sounds of birds, the much clearer skies, new walking trails and stories to explore, and certainly has given us the opportunity to look inwards.Īs a suburban resident of the coastal megacity of Mumbai, I am an avid map, travel, and illustration enthusiast. The north Indian rivers, the Ganges and the Yamuna, also feature, binding the physical, the temporal, and the spiritual with their fluid, shape-shifting forms and transporting us through our new, permanently distorted reality. My map is a metaphor for time and space twisted by the imposition of a new and constrained frame of reference, bringing together far-flung places that now exist together. These appear in the form of a montage of objects, creatures, poetic meanderings, aerial topographies and plans viewed through binocular frames. My quarantine map extends the sights and sounds of my immediate surroundings: the studio at home, the little garden outside, my night-time walking paths, as well as the places I’ve physically and virtually transported myself to during the lockdown. Doodling maps of my neighborhood has been a passion since childhood, a way to locate oneself and also record memories. |