The courts of injustice

A mix of the royal judicature of the ancient kings and the gram panchayat which is the judicial body of a village, this grand courtroom before us stood on an intimidating scale. I noticed platforms on either side stirring me within to make a decision and take a side. To protest against or to hold my silence. I choose the latter owing to my lack of judgement. The tall speakers at the back summon the accused.

To my surprise, my companion, the Miserian, had to ascend into the trial barricade before the central figure which resembled a unified entity of the creator, destroyer, and protector of thisjudicial realm. They pressed charges against him without any evidence and offered him no opportunity for Defense. the cries from the protestors on the platform across were acompletely muted.

Declared guilty and sentenced to death, I watched him exit his existence before he could say a word. There it was, the glowing light on its way to the crypts below. The lights at the court shone brighter now. But powered by injustice towards the Miserians time and again. I watched Their eternal damnation begin while they were still alive.

This grave epiphany drained me- my mind and my body. I froze absolutely motionless, helpless and weak. just a witness at the Court of Injustice.

I heard a voice “Your journey is not over yet.”

In what seemed surreal now, I suddenly found myself at the entrance of a grand carnival- A Makam. I walked down a path flanked by an endless sea of technicolored tent-like structures inhabiting thousands of people. Diametrically distinct from all the other spaces so far, I seemed to have fallen into an abyssa dream sequence

“Take a dip into the pool and complete this expedition.” said the voice.

“ Guilt. Guilt for what happened to me. For choosing to remain helpless. That’s what I see in your eyes. The dip in the pool is a chance to absolve you from it. From all your sins. It is what every person of privilege does and has done before you. An empty gesture to wash away the crimes against us along with any responsibility that society has towards us. You don’t need us anyway. Except to power your courts of injustice till the end of time. My soul is on its way to the labyrinth to provide you with unending energy. Why should this time be any different? Go on… take a dip and exonerate yourself.”

Instantly, I found myself before the courts of injustice again. This time I chose to not remain silent. I chose to join the protesters. To amplify their cries one voice at a time and to fight for justice at the Sanctuary of the damned

Semester design studio, 2021, Summer

For Dessau International Architecture, Dessau.

Mentored by :

Project type : Frederik Skatar

Urban art and architecture

Softwares : Autocad, Sketchup, Lumion, Photoshop

OASIS is a tranformative urban organism which was the result of the revitalisation program of unused corners. This design was proposed to revitalise an unused park in dessau. The design is imagined as an urban organism made of scaffolding tubes, that could extend in any direction and in no time, to urbanise the given place. The tubes provide the necessary matrix for the art installations to be placed in desired places.

The history of this park has been tainted by series of hate crimes and mishaps. The art installations are made in a way to bring in more interaction from the users with empathy as the core concept.

Scaffolding Tubes for the structure

“Can i see your thoughts”

Exploded view “Come together” “The reality around us”

Extended pathways

Existing central node

Bridges

The reality around us

‘The reality around us’ is a chance for everyone to expereince the life and death happening around you in the form of an art installation. The light installation is a consequence of the data fed into the systems. The Data is based on a pattern created using the number of births and deaths happening in the host city/town of where the installation is being planned.

Keywords : Visual, Introspective

This artistic interpretation of demographic data is intended to engage people’s emphatic understanding of cold statistics.

Can i see your rhythm?

‘Can i see you rhythm?’ gives the user a glimpse into another person’s mind. The idea was to convert heart rhythm patterns of the user to audio and then to vibrations. These vibrations create visually stunning surfaces with sand/water. Heartmath sensors are implemented to measure the heart rhythm patterns of the user.

Keywords : Auditory, Visual, Introspective

This artistic interpretation the heart rhythm patterns produce similar pattern among us, sending out the message that we are all equals.

Pattern 00

Pattern 01

Pattern 02

The result is a light show of leds created by the users/audience.

Come together

‘Come together’ is an extended expereince of the first installation,”The reality around us”. This installations offers an interactive expereince among the users with Two consoles with two buttons which would trigger the lights . The light patterns are programmed to be triggered when specific button combinations are pressed. The users becomes the performers by taking control of the lights around them.

Keywords : Visual, Introspective, Kinesthetic

This installation gives the user the control of things when they work together. This scenario demands various users to work together to put out a light show, promoting togetherness.

The Twelve Gates

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Master’s elective, 2021, Winter

For Dessau International Architecture, Dessau.

Mentored by :

Project type :

Softwares :

Prof. Alfred Jacoby

Art installation

Autocad, Sketchup, Lumion, Photoshop

In order to propagate the immaterial as well as material content of the appointment as world heritage, the Government of Rhineland palatinate has decided to establist an information centre to accompany tourists as well as propagating the issue around the appointment as a heritage site. The twelve gates is an art installation which depicts the twelve tribes of israel The design is inspired from marc chagall’s, ’Twelve maquettes’ stained glass paintings.

To pay homage to the ancient jewish tradition, the flora inside the site is left undisturbed while executing the design. The installation can house print media exhibits for an outdoor exhibition. The design was imagined with the idea of promoting the jewish culture by not just letting the world know of their suffering but by thier immense contribution to the artistic community.

Into the wild Mental mapping

Master’s elective subject, 2021, Summer

For Dessau International Architecture, Dessau.

Mentored by :

Prof. Ivan Kucina

Softwares Creative mapping/Publication design

Project type :

Procreate, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign

Mental mappping is an experimental methodology which explores subjective pereception and expression of a specific expereince. The methodology demanded us to stay in the site atleast for eight hours and map down our expereince throughout the stay. The final deliverable could be any product translating the expereince in a expressive way. The result was a book of illustrated poems and six posters on my stay there an.

“Between Seasons”

“Red pill or blue pill?”

“Gandalf and the white dragon”

“Crossroads”

“Komorebi”

“Back home”

Audio Visualization

Personal project, 2021/22

For Dessau International Architecture, Dessau.

Software :

Project type : TouchDesigner, Rhino, Grasshopper

Visual based coding

TouchDesigner is a node based visual programming language for real time interactive multimedia content to create performances, installations, and fixed media works. The idea behind this project was to visualise the song by feeding in the audio to an algorithm created in touchdesigner. The output is a realtime visual rendering of the algorithm. The noise parameter in the algorithm controls the feedback loop of a circle image which goes through colour ramp ro produce the final set of images. I took up this project personally to learn the basics of the Touchdesigner and to know more about generative art.

1. An attempt to visualise a song and be able to produce illustrations from the algorithm at any given point in the song.

“There is no man” Illustrations

The Third eye

Academic project, 2021/22

For Dessau International Architecture, Dessau.

Mentored by Frederik Skatar

Software :

Project type : Rhino, Grasshopper, Twinmotion

3D modelling, Generative modelling, Realtime Rendering

Blender and Grasshopper are two softwares that i’ve been experimenting with in order to make my work more diverse. Both these softwares make use of visual based coding, which lets you manipulate data as you want.

I extensively learned and used Rhino3d’s Grasshopper tool to generate this sculpture. This sculture is imagined as a clairvoyant system which is used toamplify mass surveillance set in the far dystopian future. This project was done as a creative exercise for CAD logic course during my master’s degree.

1. Creating a planarsurface and populating it’s geometry using random points

2. Extending lines through the points in z axis and interpolating the curves

3. Mirroring the existing geometry to get the required form of the sculpture

4. Twisting the lines that were extended and iterations are carried out

5. Mirroring the form again on z axis to get the final required form for the eye

6. Creating the 3d geometry around the lines using the pipe variable to get the final

Spatial exploration of Fractals

Personal project, 2021/22

Software : Project type : Blender, Twinmotion

3D Modelling, Realtime Rendering

Blender and Grasshopper are two softwares that i’ve been experimenting with in order to make my work more diverse. Both these softwares make use of visual based coding, which lets you manipulate data as you want.

I extensively learned and used Blender’s geometry nodes in this project to come up with the fractal formations. The idea is to instance objects over instanced objects. These are few of the projects that i have worked on while learning the software during my master studies in germany.

Ape Shift Theory

Performance lighting course, 2022

For MELD , Chennai, India

Project type : Software :

Illustration, Performance lighting, Music score

Autodesk sketchbookv, Illustrator, Photoshop

Ape shift theory was initially imagined for a music album but later evolved into a much more of a design project. The title represents the shift in our perseptions caused by external elements capable of incepting new schools of thought. The album art takes inspiration from one of the theories of evolution, Ape shift theory. The colour scheme was carefully chosen to also be further used in a photoshoot.

By collaborating with my friend and fellow designer, Daksha Suryavamshi, we were able to experiment on black light and it’s effect on different objects. We managed to collect different objects and experiment with them under the black light which reflected our colour scheme.

The knowledge we gained from the Performance lighting course we did together called INFOCUS hosted Tech quartet really healped us put together this little photoshoot in my bedroom. The result was an interesting collection of grainy photographs with altered perceptions of our realities.

Music Video, 2020

For MELD, Chennai, India

Project type : Software :

Death Rave

Art Direction, 3D Modelling, Music score

Blender, Ableton, Adobe Premier pro

Death Rave was an inhouse project that we devoloped at MELD to create more social media presence. Death rave tells the story of the human’s never ending need to escape reality. The video was imagined as a person and his pseudo self running through a world of mirrored landscapes and to merge with the source of creation. Different colour maps were used to show the change in the rhythm and mood of the song.