For our final installation, we were given complete freedom
to work any way we wanted to. Narendra wanted us to create the sort of
installation we wanted to make. We could work individually or in groups.
I wanted to work with light, because I was influenced a lot by the effect of Yayoi Kusama’s installation. I wanted to play with light and see all that it could do. Being a student of science background, I knew about a few experiments that I could work with. Like the double slit experiment. I also thought about making a huge prism or filling the room with kaleidoscopes. But, one of the criteria was that the cost of our installation should be minimum. And every idea that I got, was costing a lot.
So, I thought of doing something else.
Barkha and I thought of doing the installation together. She wanted to work with her idea of small leaves. We started thinking of ways to put our ideas together, but got no place. We both had a mind block.
I wanted to work with light, because I was influenced a lot by the effect of Yayoi Kusama’s installation. I wanted to play with light and see all that it could do. Being a student of science background, I knew about a few experiments that I could work with. Like the double slit experiment. I also thought about making a huge prism or filling the room with kaleidoscopes. But, one of the criteria was that the cost of our installation should be minimum. And every idea that I got, was costing a lot.
So, I thought of doing something else.
Barkha and I thought of doing the installation together. She wanted to work with her idea of small leaves. We started thinking of ways to put our ideas together, but got no place. We both had a mind block.
A day before we had to start working on our installation, I was
reading news and came across another absurd theory related to the Malaysian
airlines MH370, and thought of doing an art installation for that cause.
I shared the idea with Barkha, and we both thought of doing a huge dream catcher. It would not be the usual dream catcher, but it would be our representation of it. And there would be creepers with leaves coming on it from behind. The more we thought about it, the less the creepers made sense. We liked the visual of birds more.
So, the next day we started thinking more on the line of bird. We thought of combining birds and the dream catcher.
Then, Barkha had the idea of making exactly the same amount of birds as the number of passengers and crew in MH370, which were 239. We both got really excited about this idea, and definitely wanted to take it ahead.
We wanted to work with origami. So, we looked up the method of making origami cranes. We got white butter paper about 8 sheets (5 rupees each, so the minimum cost criteria got checked out).
We both were then joined in by Anahita also. So, it was the three of us who had to make the 239 origami birds. Over the course of 1 week we made these 239 birds.
On the day of the final installation, we first finalised the site of our installation. We chose the staircase on between the first and second floor. We wanted to hang the birds from the ceiling above those stairs, and the windows just added to the aesthetics.
So we started stringing each crane and got the ladder to put them up using masking tape. What we did not realise was that it was going to take us the entire day to do that. We had a pattern in mind; we wanted to show movement of the cranes. And for that we had to alter the height of the string for each crane.
Around 4o’ clock we presented our installation to the class.
Pictures of our final installation :
I shared the idea with Barkha, and we both thought of doing a huge dream catcher. It would not be the usual dream catcher, but it would be our representation of it. And there would be creepers with leaves coming on it from behind. The more we thought about it, the less the creepers made sense. We liked the visual of birds more.
So, the next day we started thinking more on the line of bird. We thought of combining birds and the dream catcher.
Then, Barkha had the idea of making exactly the same amount of birds as the number of passengers and crew in MH370, which were 239. We both got really excited about this idea, and definitely wanted to take it ahead.
We wanted to work with origami. So, we looked up the method of making origami cranes. We got white butter paper about 8 sheets (5 rupees each, so the minimum cost criteria got checked out).
We both were then joined in by Anahita also. So, it was the three of us who had to make the 239 origami birds. Over the course of 1 week we made these 239 birds.
On the day of the final installation, we first finalised the site of our installation. We chose the staircase on between the first and second floor. We wanted to hang the birds from the ceiling above those stairs, and the windows just added to the aesthetics.
So we started stringing each crane and got the ladder to put them up using masking tape. What we did not realise was that it was going to take us the entire day to do that. We had a pattern in mind; we wanted to show movement of the cranes. And for that we had to alter the height of the string for each crane.
Around 4o’ clock we presented our installation to the class.
Pictures of our final installation :
Amidst all the conspiracies that surround the disappearance of flight MH370, one can very easily forget the 239 people (including passengers and crew) whose lives are being treated with insignificance, the people whose families haven’t got any closure after the flight went missing, the people who have become a faceless number in the news. This is a small way to give a face to each life, and to let them know that they aren’t forgotten. Take a minute to look at the mass above you.
Each crane is a life.
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