This work, executed on four mylar sheets explores the multi-dimensionality of Bombay city.

Pulling sights that

are common to the streets of Bombay, I transcribed them onto the sheets to give the work depth. Colours that
are pertinent to Bombay have been used such as yellow-black for Bombays taxis, cobalt blue for blue
tarpaulin that shelters much of the city and striking red seen on BEST buses. The colours are essential to the
work as they are the first colours that I associate the city with. The work is confusing, tantalising and yet
manages to form a cogent whole.
 Continuing the theme of Bombay, Windows is a photographic series. Inspired by
Sunil Padwals installation at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, I adapted his style of black-
and-white photography to showcase hidden parts of the city. These photographs
attempt at capturing beguiling corners of the city where nostalgia lurks. The idea was
to explore nostalgia in Bombay so I bought an old, abandoned window and replaced
the glass with the printed transparencies. The light that shines through projects a hazy
picture. The haziness seems to impart a nostalgic, dreamlike quality to the work.
 Photographing the graffiti in Bombay started off as an avocation and a means of
whiling away my summer. I ultimately compiled the best photographs of the graffiti
in a zine called The Bombay Graffiti zine along with two of my friends. The zine
includes write-ups on graffiti in Bombay and where to find it, pictures of graffiti and
interviews with a few graffiti artists based in Bombay. The layout was done by me
and the photographs are a culmination of around a year of documenting Bombays
walls. I had to choose the ideal thickness of paper for printing to capture the grainy
feature of the photographs.
This is sculpture of plaster reliefs is a work in progress for a college project. Bombays history is chronicled in
its architecture that has evolved from Indo-Saracenic to contemporary and Gothic to Art Deco. What is most
special to me though, is Bombays Art Deco that has surrounded me for much of my life. Art Deco in Bombay
characteristically has thousands of years of Indian culture compressed into a wondrous assembly of
progressive design. Clusters of Art Deco office blocks, low-rise apartment buildings, hotels and cinemas
dating from the last two decades of British administration and the first few years after independence in 1947
speckle the streets of Bombay acting as a blueprint of the citys history. Leaving home and coming to
Claremont and the idea of having to recreate home here, got me thinking about what represented home to
me. The building I lived in and the buildings that surrounded me with their exuberant Art Deco features,
fountains, ziggurats, and stylized flowers that had been shaped in plaster relief structures came to become
really symbolic of home to me. I thought it would be interesting to model these similar designs that are
extremely characteristic of Art Deco in plaster once again, yet completely wrench them from their contexts.
These plaster reliefs although highly symptomatic of the political and cultural environment of 1950s Bombay
would now be uprooted and transplanted in Claremonta village that shares none of its historical threads
with the climate in Bombay that gave rise to this large assembly of Art Deco buildings.
And these are just some sculptures I made for funthey have nothing to do with Bombay.