In The Garden

Solo Exhibition, Exhibit 320, New Delhi

In the Garden: video documentation of walk through

Stop-motion animation, projection, multiple screens

Camera credit NDTV

In the Garden

Stop-motion animation, projection, multiple screens

In the Garden

Stop-motion animation, projection, multiple screens

Installation view: Repository

Thread, wood, plaster, glass

Detail: Repository, Fern in glass vitrine

Thread, wood, plaster, glass

Fossils

embroidery on wood and plaster

size: between 3 to 5 inches each

Nasturtitum 1

thread and shadow drawing

5.5″ X 5″

Detail: Repository, table top

thread and shadow drawings

Table: 19″ X 79″

Detail: table top, Hummingbird Letter

thread and shadow drawing

23′ X 14″

Detail: table top

thread drawing

Letter

thread drawing

life size

Fern Vitrine

Thread, glass, wood

24″ X 7′ X 6″

Dragonfly in Glass Jar

thread, glass jar

Installation view: Mughal Minature plant in glass bottle in foreground and Willow in background

thread, glass

Willow

thread drawing

10ft X 7.5ft

Detail: Willow

thread drawing

10ft X 7.5ft

Installation view

Breath Song 1

Embroidery on layers of translucent fabric

24″ X 20″

Detail: Breath Song 1

Embroidery on layers of translucent fabric

24″ X 20″

Breath Song 5

Embroidery on layers of translucent fabric

Breath Song 2: Fern

Embroidery on layers of translucent fabric

24″ X 20″

Detail Breath Song 2: Fern

Embroidery on layers of translucent fabric

Nasturtium 2, Carua

thread and shadow drawings

16″ X 13″ each

Water Lettuce

thread and shadow drawing

16″ X 19″

Light Threads (with stop-motion animation projected on it)

Embroidery on raw silk, Stop-motion animation

7ft 3″ X 10ft

Light Threads (without stop-motion animation projected on it)

Embroidery on raw silk, Stop-motion animation

7ft 3″ X 10ft

Process: Light Threads

Embroidery on raw silk

Light Threads

Embroidery on raw silk, Stop-motion animation

7ft 3″ X 10ft

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Text by Sumakshi Singh

“In the Garden” posits three stories.

The first is an homage to the experience of two particularly lush, illuminated, breathing, dying and resurrecting gardens which now outlive their creators– one planted by my mother and another by a Swiss Hermit in the Himalayas -truly portals into a dimension of magic and possibility.

The second space offered is of their memory – a flattening out of experience- a cataloging, archiving and preserving of lace-like words of personal letters which levitate without a ground to attach themselves to, fragile woven-skeletons of pressed flowers, leaves and seeds, floating in glass vitrines, seemingly embroidered on air, fossil like imprints of embroideries on plaster – a repository of the subtle armatures and structures upon which experience plumps itself out.

The third story is of the experience of memory – layered veils –thread-images concealed and revealed in a mist.

The invisible, the obscured and the absent grounds of these images make the literally missing “negative space” more present offering a look at the space “in-between”.

“People are over-trained to look at things. If they would learn to look in-between whole universes would open up.” – Swami Jnanananda Giri