Bombay Bloom proposes that the Monsoon Cloud and the flooding rains become catalysts for a new urbanism. In this new seasonal city that blooms, the deluge brought on by the Monsoon is no longer feared, but celebrated, registered and anticipated. It's presence is felt from the soaked urban fabric to the ghats, where the landscape of India meets the water’s edge. Here the Monsoon Cloud is mirrored onto the ground’s surface and is made visible. This is the new datum of Mumbai - the ‘Bombay Bloom’. The heavily pregnant monsoon cloud arrives yearly in Bombay - it’s viscous heft stifling the wheezing city. This overwhelming weight cannot hold and spills onto the awaiting world of the city, oozing as gently as it can onto the ground, creating a viscous glass-scape where the flood-waters used to sit. This year Bombay won’t drown and it won’t be ungrateful to the fertility of the cloud – for the deluge will instead softly soak the city. The skies are filled to the brim with stars, like petals a
