Face in a frame..

There are more universes in Mumbai than one can ever want to know or even dream of knowing. Leave alone understanding. Faces betray a host of things about a person: their heritage, opinions, lineage, community, lifestyles, thoughts, choices, economic status, concerns .. the list is endless. Mumbai is, relatively speaking, the only Indian city that encompasses such a wide demographic of peoples. And, cautiously, revels in it.

Am working on a piece only comprising peoples' faces from photos to ids to portraits to everything else..

More photos..

More photos of the city/ first week of June..

Textures, textures, textures

From spray paints to rusted tin sheets to fish scales to leaf patterns: textures can be found in any thing in the urban city. And Mumbai abounds in them. Just the texture and state of dereliction gives some interesting textures.

The chawl/ pixel art piece ..

Full time work on the project got off to a stuttering start with some major computer problems..thats now fixed.

Wanted to keep the grime-black-ramshackle look of the worli chawls intact in the piece, even though pixel art is known to be more clean, and crisp (for lack of a better word). The color scheme is thus greatly limited to olive green-gray-black to get that oppressive-army barrack feel. Work still in progress..
And of course video game parlance is juxtaposed in thh context of everyday chawl life.