The Diary of a Mountain Tree

Category: Visual Art, New Media

Healing Extensions for Planetary Health - ‘Inner Healing of the People helps in the External Healing of the World.’

This art project is about constructing a creative support system for wheelchair bound people with the help of visuals and sounds. This is an interactive moving art project focusing on mental well-being that involves healing with the help of the user’s imagination. This inclusive artwork also reaches out to non-wheelchair users, with it being a tangible work, it even interacts with the visually impaired. Thus, it connects people from different walks of life and makes them more sensitive, responsive, and kind to the earth. This project believes that improving people’s mental health will make them more concerned about nature and positively impact the environment around them.

Artist Dhakshini Jeganathan came up with the experimental kinetic art form called ‘Moving Paintings’ where the art is of shape shifting nature and can be physically moved and shaped by the audience who interacts and plays with it.

Dhakshini’s previous kinetically themed works are ‘Healing Extensions’, that won 2 awards in BMS 2021. Two of her interactive moving wheel art installations from her series ‘The Wandering Story Tellers’ were exhibited in ‘Spotlight’ exhibition, Penang and in ‘MEA Art Awards’, Kuala Lumpur in 2022. The Three-Legged Man, Trojan War Scene, Abstract puppet, and Puzzle Painting were artworks exhibited in Goethe, Chennai, India, in October 2019.