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.
Channa at Juhu Beach
Channa at Juhu Beach 2011
Two eyes stare at each other. The electric bulbs flashes as a signal.
Gold fish bowl, Plastic toys, electric bulbs, wire, electronic timer
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.
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