These steps know of all the comings and goings,
And a few other stories too.
They don’t tell them, however.
Images
Keep Walking
If it doesn’t go any further,
Open the door and find another way.
Keep walking.
Where Have all the People Gone?
There’ll be empty spaces soon
In the places where we all used to gather.
And they’ll ask; where have all the people gone?
Some Crossroads are Unlike Others
Some crossroads are unlike others,
Even if they seem just the same.
They have more than three possibilities.
Of Green Grass
Town Hall, Kolhapur, MH, India. 9 September 2006
Green grass, yonder,
Rusted fence in between.
Allow time; nothing will stop us.
The Reminders Within
Some emotions will slowly slip through,
The inexorable cracks of time.
If we slice through, we’ll discover how we lived our life.
Solitude at the Sea
A little bit of solitude
Within a little bit of infinity.
A little bit is all that we seek.
Hearts & Bones
National Park, Borivali, Mumbai, MH, India. 29 May 2012
You take two bodies and you twirl them into one
Their hearts and their bones
And they won’t come undone.
~ Paul Simon, Hearts & Bones, Hearts & Bones
Ground Work
View from a Window, 10 July 2006, Central St. Martins College, London, United Kingdom
I see a pattern of hatches
Down on the street below.
My eyes though, focus far beyond.
White in the Green
Mobor, Goa, India. September 2011
How do I tell you of soft affectionate white flowers
In the monotony of sharp green blades.
The cuts preoccupy your mind.
Chaos to Clarity
Clarity is not a given. Chaos is. And only through chaos, after sifting, classifying, segregating, and allocating can there be clarity. But it is never a given. It will always have to be taken.
Shades of Grey
Shades of grey wherever I go
The more I find out the less that I know
There ain’t no rainbows shining on me
Shades of grey are the colors I see
~ Billy Joel, Shades of Grey
Come Home
Over obstacles, under the clouds and through the barriers,
Sans the compass and making sense of torn maps.
You’ll find a way, home.
Triangles, by Parallelograms
Installation Art at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai, India. February 2012
Whatever the shape of things to come
We will put it together in our own way.
New shapes will help us see through.
Slow Down
Kew Gardens, London, United Kingdom. June 2007
Perhaps the recession has a message for us.
My Home
I was not created
To be at anchor.
My home is the open sea.
Vengurla Port, Konkan, MH, India. December 2005
On a Clear Day
To be slashed away
Of havens, fear, burdens, and other acquisitions.
To be born again.
Burn, Brightly
Anxiety is imagination’s dark cousin
Fallen from grace.
It lights up the road to hell.
17 May 2007, Centre for Contemporary Arts, CCA: Bar, Glasgow, Scotland.
Romancing the Idea
Relaxation Sold Here, Bhopal, MP, India. December 2010
All artists reflect the ideas of their times, but it is given to some artists to reflect the intellectual romance of their time… The romance of an idea, made visible, becomes in a way a critique of the idea, a revelation of its fragile human basis, and therefore of its contingency, even its absurdity.
~ Adam Gopnik, Quoted in The Ongoing Moment, by Geoff Dyer
Happy Independence Day
Malvan Beach, MH, India
Ours is to fill up our hearts with all things good, so that there is no place for anything else.
Happy Independence Day!
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