Landscape of Identities
In this crucial time of
Covid-19 pandemic we all are told to stay home, so we all browse through the news getting to
know the facts worldwide and also the people suffering through the pain. I saw
that patients were suffering but so were the poor and the working team, some
migrant workers of India had to walk home for days while the working team of
police and doctors has been doing their jobs almost entire day. Be it the
people shown in news or the people outside my neighborhood , rich or poor I realized how important life is for me and others and how every person in this
world has a different story, an identity of its own to save itself from the
horrors in life.
Realizing this as an
artist I felt to covert this into my art or give it a shape to define the identities
I notice around me. In this installation I am depicting people with their portraits
of emotions, their individual identities in fragmented blocks. Materials that I
have used in this work are industrial metal cutouts which are in different
sizes and shapes, some shapes are decorative and some are that hurt, some are
pretty and some are weird; these basically define us, our nature and therefore
I used these to define these individuals. Every piece has its own definition, a
tale, an identity and its reflection is seen in these three dimensional sculptures standing strongly for its fragmented identity representing people, humans, us.
