PROCESS OF EXPLORATION OF BODY AND SPACE-JYOTISMRITI

 THIS PROJECT WAS AN OUTCOME OF WORKSHOP CONDUCTED BY SANJAYAN GOSH IN THE YEAR 2023 TO UNDERSTAND THE ASSOCIATION OF A BODY AND ITS SPACE .THE WORKSHOP STARTED BY NUMEROUS EXERCISES AND LATER RESULTED IN A SPACIAL ART INSTALLATION.WE WERE PAIRED IN TO GROUPS OF TWO AND ASKED TO STUDY EACH OTHER.TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY AND EVERY ASPECT OF THE PERSON WE WERE PAIRED WITH .WE WERE LATER GUIDED BY OUR MENTOR TO INTERPRET THE BODY AND SPACE THEY OCCUPY ,NOT JUST PHYSICAL SOCIAL ,DIGITAL AND MORE WITH OBJECTS .THESE OBJECTAS WE FOUND THAT IS INTERLINKED WITH THE BODY WERE COLLECTED AND USED TO CREATE A SPACIAL INSTALLATION THAT BEST SPOKE ABOUT THE PERSON WE RESEARCHED ON. 

 

I WAS PAIRED WITH JYOTISMRITI BORDALOY FROM ASSAM

                

                   

  

           

     

                 

AFTER PROPER DOCUMENTATION AND RESEARCH ABOUT JYOTI AND THE SPACE SHE BELONGS TO AND GETTING TO KNOW HER THROUGH DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES I DECIDED ON MATERIALS THAT RESONATED WITH HER BODY AND SPACE SHE BELONGS TO AND OCCUPY .

 

                       

AFTER DECIDING ON MATERIALS LIKE THE TRADITIONAL SAREE AND BAMBOO THAT ALSO RESONATED WITH HER VERSATALITY.

 

FROM THE NUMBER OF STORIES AND MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD SHE SHARED WITH ME, THE ONE THAT STRUCK ME WAS  THE ONE WITH HER MOTHER SNEAKING IN HER FAVORITE  BISCUITS ON HER CELEBRATION OF FIRST MENSTRUATION WHERE IN ASSAM THE GIRL CHILD IS MADE MARRY A BANANNA TREE AND KEPT AWAY IN A SEPERATE ROOM AS A SACRED RITUAL PRACTICE.  SHE REMEMBERS HER BEING WANTING TO EAT SNACKS WHICH SHE WAS RESTRICTED TO ,YET HER MOTHER SNEEKED IN HER SOME BISCUITS THAT SHE STILL REMEMBERS.

         

I DECIDED TO REPRESENT HER STRENGTH AND HER BEING A WOMEN AND HER WOMENHOOD BY NARRATING THE STORY TO REMEMBER HER MOTHER WHO PLAYED THE BIGGEST ROLE IN HER LIFE AND STILL IS.