Jitni Mann ki Daud is my diploma project under 'Art in Transit' which is a live undertaking by the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology for the BMRC and will focus on the Peenya Metro station as a pilot project. The project offers the opportunity for creation of an immersive art and design experience that marks the location of the station and its architecture. The larger objective of the project is to develop cultural links between the different locations through interactive means creating new shared experiences for the city.
Under this cluster my project tries to evoke that everyday experience of rushing by in the mornings. Transit is a space for moving through; a space to make a journey and this journey is often towards specific goals. Whether it is to get to their workspace, to meet a friend, to spend time with family, to see a destination, the transit is rarely a place for stopping and is usually a passing through. It is barely a destination. The traveller in this process is often hurried and detached from the journey. The journey however long or short does not really matter to him/her. They are looking elsewhere, avoiding eye contact, ear phones plugged in, waiting for the train to take them to their respective destination and let the journey pass them in a blur.
To Scale work at the Peenya Metro Station
PROCESS WORK
Visualisation on site: a photoshop mockup. The piece is also an intervention in the space of passing through to see if the routine travellers will pause and find a glimpse of their own lives in the piece. It is also a play with movement of the passenger and the scale of objects in the piece. As the Passenger moves closer to the piece they can discover little narratives of the people sitting around this table/city scape and find fantasy and mundane reality side by side, which is which, is for the viewer to discover.
Notes on understanding the space.
Site sketches
Work in progress
Documentation Book: process work in detail.
