Kala Ghoda Art Festival 2013
Tarewarchi Kasarat
In this city dream - Mumbai, we often trade our dreams for bigger pay checks, higher designations, fame, money and what not. Which eventually results in, we being tied up. Tied up in some important work, tied uo in an urgent meeting, tied up with important call, tied up at the moment and tied up forever.
Tarewrchi kasarat is a Marathi phrase meaning balancing on the tight rope. The human figures here, tied up with different types of wires and threads, symbolizes the busy souls of mumbaikars. The colorful thread represents modern technology & development and the aluminum wire represents the inner fears and inhibitions
that keeps us tied up always.
If this culture doesn’t make us feel good then let’s create one where we can slow down, where we can dream, where we can have all the time in the world for ourselves and for our near and dear ones.
Kala Ghoda Art Festival 2014
Wish Tree
We are continuously in motion. With every passing minute our lives are changing, gaining new momentum. But in this process there are certain things that lose momentum and fall out of our system. Sometimes it includes our treasured and valuable belongings, feeling and attachments. It can be an old bicycle, a childhood memory, an old buddy or anything else.
The only way we can put them back in motion is to trace them back in our memories. With this wish tree we have brought the old, junk cycles back to life. So, here’s youre chance. Go ahead and write about what you would like to bring back in your lives, followed by your name and email id.
Let’s hope, by the end of kalaghoda Festival each one of us would trace these missing links in our lives. And maybe someday we will succeed in bringing back too.
Kala Ghoda Art Festival 2015
Clockweb
There are certain things that touch our lives in a very different way and we don't even realize it. One such thing is Time, the greatest invention of mankind. But don't you think we are all trapped in time? Or should we call ourselves slaves of time?
Have you ever seen an insect trapped in spider's web? Want to know how it feels to get trapped in a web? Take a closer look here.
Just like those insects we too are trapped in this time web. Only difference is we don't just realize it. The 12 spokes of the web symbolize 12 hours of a clock, and the smaller webs made with four spokes are the 4 quarters of the clock. Every passing minute, these tiny little clock spiders are weaving a web around us. And we are constantly running around these clocks and the harder we try to move out of these webs, deeper we get trapped in it.
Just like few tactile senses we don't realize it. But once we realize and feel this sensation, we can escape this web too. So for at least a day let us live a clock less life.
This installation is a story of every busy soul trapped within these time webs.
