Holding a Mirror to One’s Beloved
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What memory or reactions do the pieces evoke?
Do specific words come to mind when you see, listen or
experience the work?
What tools shape the ways in which you see?
What will you remember from this experience?
Looking forward to your responses!
The shape of seeing is the shape of my eye
Why then are my memories recalled in rectangles?
I think through the frames in which I see regularly
I see them inform the formats in which I think,
Each habit shaping the other.
Much of my time is spent looking into devices
that I cradle in my palm or hold on my lap
a viewfinder to the world, pervasive.
Perhaps, these frameworks make the world more palatable,
easier to experience — like taming a forest into a garden.
What does it look like to see things as is,
without the confines of a learnt format?
What does it look like to witness the afterimage
develop in one’s mind?
Walking a landscape, pulling out the phone,
a mediatory between the sunrise and I,
a medium and a barrier.
Seeing oneself through the eyes of another,
Detaching from the felt experience
to a cerebral illusion of self.
Creating fragmentary ruptures
to find meaning without these confines.
Holding a Mirror to One’s Beloved
Asking, are you the earth too?
Installation view of Experiments in Practice : Ela Mukherjee and Kushala Vora supported by the Jyotsna Bhatt Ceramics Award 2024 at Ark Foundation for the Arts, Vadodara.
