Peregrination has begun. It began the day we were born......yes
this journey, this route to the unknown, the destination ....still evolving.
We have started our work, yes all
our multi-layered, multi-technique, multi-textured, merging creative process
has begun. In a sense it began when we met years ago in a gallery in 2008. Maya
Bhalla, the artist I am proud to be collaborating with for Peregrination. Since then we kept in touch. 2011 rolled in, we started
doing many a group shows together here in Singapore and overseas. A bonding
over process, technique and thoughts evolved. So apparently different
otherwise, we amazed ourselves, at how alike we could think. Yet we expressed
it so differently, in our own technical abilities and sensibilities. It made
perfect sense to collaborate.
Collaboration is something I have
tried earlier. This one is different though, as the idea of this entire process
was born together. A casual coffee and a sketch on the beach, a few other
meetings and we started discussing and fantasizing creating this project that
is now called, Peregrination.
A journey, which can be from the
womb, to where we stand today, as adult individuals, part of a social scenario,
observers, experiencing a collective psyche and yet, growing differently. We
are all on our very own orbits, spinning on our own axis and making a collective
memory in the process. A journey is that of an insect from the pupa to full
grown form, of a foetus to a grown individual standing an experiencing an
exhibition. A journey is that holiday we carry with a room full of memories,
pasted now in frames on the wall. A journey whether metaphorical or physical in
some way we carry with us always, physically or psychologically. A journey born
and raised and educated in Mumbai, we find ourselves in Singapore making a
space and carving a memory in the collective psyche of Singapore. We came with
impressions and memories as baggage and we travel the world today as Singapore
emblems. This morphing and blending and unpredictability of journeys has
brought us here and even placed us beside each other to think and create. To
symbolize this merging and coming together of our journeys we have a surprise
for you on the opening night of the exhibition. Intrigued? Stay that way.......
we will keep teasing you with information every now and again.
For some reading on Maya and her
thought process do check out her blog.
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