Death Landscapes III

This series examines the transitory, impermanent and ephemeral qualities of memory and material through a continually evolving series of internal landscape collages. Constructed with layers of cut white paper, these relief collages are made visible when light casts shadows across the surface. Light defines and demarcates space and ultimately completes the work. These collages invite the viewer to contemplate form, structure, line and space, while also allowing for individual projections and inscriptions onto a visual plane, which both welcomes and resists embodiment.

The project is inspired, in part, by my memories of Bangalore city and the inherent sculptural qualities of the buildings and landscapes that I saw while living there – old houses, new towering apartment complexes, Hindu temples and crematoriums, industrial factories, large advertising billboards, monolithic rocks and boulder formations that dominate the skyline on the edge of the city. These tactile paper constructions bring together the urban and natural iconography of this place and reimagines them through the prism of a fading memory.