The video anchors around a computed portrait —suspended between a corpse state and a not-yet-alive stillness. Exploring the notions of dissonance that come forth in enclaves of stratified mechanics. Set against an outlandish landscape of skyscrapers without bottom and submerged in a fog of amnesia. The camera moves throughout the video’s duration, registering the entire scenography as static elements—each marked as a fragment of contingent history.
Amid the rugged terrains of the Deccan hills, a mystic figure unfolds—its body stretched beyond form, merging with the land it rises from. Overhead, a flying object that traces an imprint. Delineating the tremors of beyond-human kinships, the video senses the caste as a fiction of nature and its implications on deep-time relationships with the geophysical movements.
Duration: 10:53 minutes
A mix of live shoot and CGI Blender environment.
Duration: 7:51 minutes
CGI Blender environment.
This video, made in 2021, carries traces of my earlier thought processes. The practice has since moved in different directions, but I see this work as a marker of that passage.
Isn’t it the flight that disappears
into the vastness of the sky of images,
only to receive at the other end
a new image at heels with tiny butterflies?