29 Oct '10- Fractals

It all began with a photo I took with a friends camera on a foggy night. I knew i wanted to do something with the photograph. So, I started with it. Im not very comfortable working with blacks so wasn't sure how it would come out. But the outcome was more like fractals and i quite liked it. Don't really know what this is but it must go on.

26,27,28 Oct '10- 3 Eggs in 3 Days

I wanted to draw these egg creatures for awhile. Finally, got to do it this week. I think the shape of the egg is so unique to find in something natural. In hindi an egg is called ANDA or UNDA which also means zero! If you see the shape it could be a zero. So I used those kind of features, expressions and just played around with the word Unda and the face.

25 Oct '10- One Rupee

This is a little technical. Well, it started with a scanned image of a one rupee coin and turned into this. Maybe you can spot the coin in there somewhere? keep looking :)

For 19 Oct '10- Hand it to me

So since I din't get much time last tuesday i did a series of hand patterns for that day. Need to try and work everyday. Took a photograph of a hand i had taken and played around with it to create patterns. Like a few of them!

24 Oct '10- The Sunday Wall

my angel helpers- Paresh, Arpita, Aakanksha, Janak

So, there was an art event going on in the city and they wanted people to come out and paint walls on chapeal road/veronica road in Bandra- west. I really wanted to go paint a random wall on the street. So, I asked a few friends and Aakanksha- lawyer was the first to say yes. People said yes and backed out. On Sunday, I had no paints, a vague idea of the design and I met my friend Janak- exporter and Akanksha and on the way we decided more or less the way we were going to go. I took inspiration from my drawings of the nosey people and we thought we would do one chaaracter with a bow tie.

We bought paints according to our colour scheme. Decided to use bright tarpaulin inspired blue for the background and basic colours of red and white for highlighting and black to outline. Once, we reached the street, there was no big wall but we found the walled fence of a society building which had some natural separation. So, we decided to be bold and make 5 characters! Aakanksha took inspiration from the drawings and did her own interpretation of the old nosey people? and i drew some basic figures. Well, we took about 4 hours to complete! Arpita- Marketing and P.R. and Paresh- Jeweler got us some coffee and joined in later! Janak too cleaned the walls, helped us through the process and even painted! We were happy with the outcome. Hope no dog or human pees or poops on it anytime soon!

18 Oct- Work in Progress

This is completely a work in progress. It was just experimentation to figure the material. This process takes time as it takes upto 1 week for it to dry! So a few more works in line.

This week is a busy week for me so may not be able to put work everyday but next week will make up for it by working twice daily!

15th Oct '10- HANDS & LEGS

A photographic series of hands, legs asking questions and reacting to the answers!

14 Oct '10- The Future

Been thinking lately about the future so i guess some futuristic elements come in my photography. The colours are like the past but the imagery of the future- unsure, mysterious, growing, morphing!