Insight

My friend Manali is doing her Masters at CEPT, Ahmedabad and she introduced me to this form of art called installation art. It is a site-specific art, three-dimensional in Nature. We see a lot of these around us, there are street installations, installations in a campus or building. This blog is about an installation by Manali at her university.

Walking around the campus, she lead us to her site. Spellbound, I kept on staring at the installation. Its difficult to describe the art but I ll try describing the raw details of it. A mess of paper rolls, entangled with barbed wires, connected by jute threads, were suspended 4-5 feet above ground with the help of trees around, on which jute threads were knotted.

Her mind in Process

She described it as her mind. Each paper roll described a roll of thoughts in her mind. Her fears and her thoughts were depicted in the rolls. The mess, the wires and thread showed the confusion in her mind, or her struggle to understand her own self.You can read more about it in her own words on her blog (links given at the end).

For me, I was amazed as to how she was able to cut open and extract her mind into threads to create it. She is as good as a doctor who is trying to know the human brain. The art speaks of her story, if I could read it, I would be able to tell the past, present and future of  her life by only looking at her installation.

Words fall short to describe this particular installation. You should actually have a look at it to understand it. Sitting around it for an hour, a person would surely know himself/herself more.

Pics are taken from her blog

To know more about it check out her blog. Comments here are welcomed and will also be read by Manali.

http://mattiima.blogspot.com/2009/12/process.html – The process … leading to thoughts

http://mattiima.blogspot.com/2010/01/installation-pics.html – Installation Pics

http://mattiima.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-thoughts-ahmedabad-cept-2009.html – her thoughts

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