Black Molasses If I were to imagine the colour of my childhood, I can instantly say it was green. However green got replaced by black for most of my adult life and remains a predominant colour ever since. Most of us view the world today through our black screens and live a lot more in the digital space dealing with an overload of projected reality. I have felt trapped in the digital space for years. Professionally I am required to and for leisure I chose to. However, it got a lot worse and addictive with the advent of social media, It's a place for projecting a staged and self-promotional image of happiness and success for the most part. Which, I feel is so far removed from reality mostly. There is often a feeling of being lost, claustrophobia, anxiety by being stuck in what seems like thick black molasses, which is true for many people today. I have created a clay sculpture called 'lost in the black noise’ and some hand-moulded functional objects in black as a response for the upcoming exhibition theme 'the things are vanishing before us…”. Which, according to the curator is about digitisation of objects, information, and emotions and how they have irrevocably altered our existing ways of knowing, doing and being. The use of ceramics as a fragile material, seeks to evoke a sense of empathy, hinting at the fragility of the current human condition in a more general sense. Showing: 7-20 January 2017 State Art Gallery, Hyderabad #claymen #clayobjects #ceramics
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