The Porous Self
Interior Landscapes

Today, as much as conservation focuses on the exterior landscapes, unless we mirror the vastness and the intricacy of networks of the exterior in our interiority, we are left with no connection, no language to truly communicate with the natural world intrinsically.

Deerness

I see the series of works that capture deer in diverse moments as a single production of Deerness, that moment when the physical body of the human and the deer meld into a new whole in consciousness! Hundreds of encounters with Chital and Sambar in the forests of Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Kerala, the lower Siwalik hills, in Chennai and Delhi have created this intimacy with the form of the deer through which I find my inner landscapes.
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Where Lotuses bloom...

All outward gaze turns into inner landscapes where lotuses bloom ceaselessly in unexpected moments, as more species walk in demanding their space...Birds fly, mountains meet sky, mahseer turns into surrealistic reflection of sambhar on the banks of river Kaveri in an old fi shing camp. Moonrise and water ripples cascade over deer body lighting up inner worlds seamlessly. River terns pause in their flight, fish eagle ponders over wind-blown rocks, finding a nice ledge.
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​Collections
The Porous Self 2015-2023​
​Leafbirds 2012
Mapping  'Ulat Bansi' 2012
Installations
Shiva-Shakti 2002
Earth Colours 1998