Inside Out

Collaboration Piece with Ishita Biswas

Working in collaboration with Ishita is one of the most important and useful interventions that I have conducted. We both have a different way of interpreting and assessing site. After the Bombay trip I was anxious to see how I take the process forward. This collaboration made me more aware of the steps I take while ideating on site. Its different cause there is someone with whom you constantly discuss the decisions that you plan on taking. This was one of the smoothest collaboration when it came to expressing thoughts.

“Inside out”, is a dialogue, narrative that the site creates within itself and the viewer. A dialogue that the under construction structural elements like the broken walls, corroded iron rods have with the only complete structure in that vicinity, the watchman shelter. We have used the elements present onsite to help us navigate through the image. It felt like creating an open ended entrance. 

Sketch onsite

Yelahanka New Town Market, Bangalore

Watchmen's quarter. The only almost constructed structure in that under construction area. 

Working Onsite

Working outside involves both intense physical exertion and mental involvement. Bright sun above you, constant crowd passing by that want to know what you are doing, your hand doesn't stop working, 

If you are working on floor you need to consider the traffic. Site inspection and awareness are also very important. Please carry sun block, glares, liquids, fruits, food, water, appropriate clothes, sport shoes and constantly take breaks. 

Working onsite is a stimulating cycle of responding to queries. You may ask what these queries are but what’s more important is how each intervention is aimed at informing those queries and not resolving them. This constant state of forming queries helps me think and respond through site. 

The first and the most important thing is to ask for permission. You are just leaving an image behind but the occupants have to live with that image. As the aim of this process is not pasting a pretty picture on the wall, but at the same time being efficient in whatever medium you choose to execute your work with onsite.

New project at the Peenya Metro Station

This was my first intervention in a public space. 
The query that I was trying to address here was where I place myself as a public artist.

Shone

Playfulness within structures, exhibited in public, displayed in different ways initiates

interaction with these elements like a smooth conversation. 

This dialogue is achieved by playing with application of single color that portrays reflection of single structure painted over group of structures.

I used spray cans for this simple application. It is quick and easy but I would rather prefer paints.

It took me time to realize that working onsite is not similar to working on a canvas.

Switching mediums is still a work in progress.