Living on love and fresh air - an experiment on fish

It looks more like a cross between a scientific experiment, curio box and erotic object 

It started from a cheap mechanical plastic toy, a fish eating a fish, I discovered at Vasai market.  It has a small fish in its mouth and flips its tail, opens and closes its mouth as if swallowing the small fish in its mouth.

If the small fish is removed from the mouth of the big fish, its motion of opening and closing of the mouth looks like it is gasping for air. This led to feeding it air and then to experiment of proverbial, survival on love and fresh air.  As the air pump, lotus, and doll’s head got added to it, the experiment gave away to other meanings.

Khoj, Delhi

An interactive piece that would respond to the sound in the room. The white sponge is the external ear, the eardrum the tawa, the bone that carry the sound to the inner ear became the hammer and rest of the inner ear, ropelight.

The hammer moves with a motor and hit the tawa and made a sharp sound. The any other noise nearby would make the hammer stop and the rope light to light up. As if the ear got angry to the intrusion of outside sound.

Vishal Rawlley came up with an electronic circuit which was sensitive to react to sound in the room. He also put an animation of Bappi Lahiri which responded to the sound at the same time with the ear.

public sculpture for ants

vadehra art gallery, new delhi, 2007

size variable,
no object is taller than 4 inches

edge of nations

installation view of tank,

Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2007

Public Sculptures for Ants

Every day when I go to my studio in the early morning I use pick up tiny little objects on the pavement of our building society. These objects became the Public Sculpture for Ants. They are small assemblages most of them less than two inches in height.

installation view at Vadehra Art Gallery