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The Medieval Futurism
The Celestial Omnibus (after EM Forster)
No Parking
A shrine for an endless existential suffering
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The Medieval Futurism
Dimensions: 10x10"
Medium: Digital collage, print on archival paper
Creation Date: 24th May 2020
Medium: Digital collage, print on archival paper
Creation Date: 24th May 2020
This is an advertisement (an experiment of imagination, if you might call it that) of a planetary touring company. For a guided heritage tour to the buildings of medieval times. While an ambitious guide clicks their picture, four beautiful extraterrestrials lounge irresponsibly on a disproportionate flower basking in the cool sky they carry around with them while terrestrials die of night heat. The rich, and more privileged speak in a language as such. This is a matter of bodies of matter existing inspite of each other. This artwork is one of my first digital collages and I took very heavy influence from the miniature paintings. This artwork also takes massive inspiration from Kodwo Eshun's paper 'Further Considerations on Afrofuturism'.
The Celestial Omnibus (after EM Forster)
Dimensions: 10x10"
Medium: Digital collage, print on archival paper
Creation Date: 5th June 2020
Medium: Digital collage, print on archival paper
Creation Date: 5th June 2020
M & M in unison: Bhaiya celestial omnibus ki do ticket dena.
Every Friday M&M embark on a new adventure. Today they got in touch with the archives of EM Forster to get the direction to the celestial omnibus depot. Across the signboard, they rub their eyes twice. People think its a joke and the police thinks it was a mischief of some wicked women who practiced witchcraft. But here are M&M, buying tickets from the depot. This journey holds promises, what if they meet someone special and tasty or what if they find a cure to human insanity. But I know that they only embark on this adventure to extend their lazy day dreamy selves to the celestial space. In that bag under M's head is an unopened bottle of wine. God they are extra. In all tomfoolery, it is best to leave the earth in an omnibus that carry many diverse things rather than a spaceship that only carries a singular notion of existence. Omnibus also brings you back. You can ask M & M, how their journey was once they return.
Every Friday M&M embark on a new adventure. Today they got in touch with the archives of EM Forster to get the direction to the celestial omnibus depot. Across the signboard, they rub their eyes twice. People think its a joke and the police thinks it was a mischief of some wicked women who practiced witchcraft. But here are M&M, buying tickets from the depot. This journey holds promises, what if they meet someone special and tasty or what if they find a cure to human insanity. But I know that they only embark on this adventure to extend their lazy day dreamy selves to the celestial space. In that bag under M's head is an unopened bottle of wine. God they are extra. In all tomfoolery, it is best to leave the earth in an omnibus that carry many diverse things rather than a spaceship that only carries a singular notion of existence. Omnibus also brings you back. You can ask M & M, how their journey was once they return.
No Parking
Dimensions: 10x10"
Medium: Digital collage, print on archival paper
Creation Date: 27th June 2020
Medium: Digital collage, print on archival paper
Creation Date: 27th June 2020
No Parking signage will never be taken seriously. There is a notorious air about existing with gadgets, signboards, iconography and symbols. This existence amounts to tremendous lethargy at the levels of consumption and production. The lethargy related to noticing and understanding the gadgets, signboards, iconography and symbols because there is tremendous amount of notorious lethargy related to producing these gadgets, signboards, iconography and symbols. I imagined this as an everyday rebellion against the already published rules. We establish these pieces of rebellion against the thoughts, wishes and philosophies of our immediate suppressing environments. Sometimes these acts of rebellion are insignificant and lame but it always aligns the mind to thinking about who is setting the rules and why?
A shrine for an endless existential suffering
Dimensions: 10x10"
Medium: Digital collage, print on archival paper
Creation Date: 24th May 2020
Medium: Digital collage, print on archival paper
Creation Date: 24th May 2020
Since all the institutions are depreciating under their own dirty under bellies, people have come up with their own symbology and iconography philosophising and instituting a new form of cult of an almost alien kind (quite literally). Institutions of such primitive kind are born when the philosopher's primal fear is fear itself. To meet the deity, the members of the cult blindfolded by fear, make a pilgrim to the farthest step of the staircase with all the things they think will please the deity. By this time the abstract form of deity is a proud blob of things, it thinks it can get away with anything and it does.
You see, I have been thinking about iconography a lot. The only cult member is no one but me, the philosopher philosophizing this cult is no one but me. Because my primal fear is fear itself, I think if I drag myself through the wretchedness of each day, maybe the so called deity will bless me with capitalist rewards. This is my own shrine of existentialism.