Windows in Underground Tanks
Peenya Metro Station, Bangalore
September 2015.
This piece began as an attempt to mock the scale of structures such as these and what they stand for. Through the process of execution however, I was forced to grow less hostile towards the space. My interest, through this sustained engagement, was really centred on understanding the existing visual language of the space, and then reinventing this language in a way that would emphasise its rigidity but still offer room for possibility.
I have found that my own movement along the length of this piece is visible in the transformation of my visual language that, at the time, came to me instinctively. I allowed myself to be led by this instinct in order to disturb the calculated precision with which structures such as these are built up; as if to indicate that there is still some room, between opaque windows, tangled wires, and impenetrable walls.