MURAKAMI COSTUMES

MURAKAMI

COSTUMES

MURAKAMI COSTUMES Reading produces sensations within the body, images and memories in our minds. The project within the allied design studio was to take phrases from the novels of Haruki Murakami and explore these sensations as reactions on the body. These became costumes that transformed the body.

In the first stage students made drawings of their impressions of the text. In the second through scaled models, mockups.

Marshy ground thwarts passage

Krishna Parmar

The frills,buttons and epaulettes and lace belts sucked greedily at the room’s air, thinning it out until he could hardly breathe.

The frills,buttons and epaulettes and lace belts sucked greedily at the room’s air, thinning it out until he could hardly breathe.

Akshi Kumar

Karina Sanghvi

The smile was so radiant that the air seemed to thin around it

The smile was so radiant that the air seemed to thin around it.

Bathed in the pallid moonlight, my body, like some plaster puppet is losing all it’s living warmth.

Yashvi Gala

They glint slightly, a pleasant muffled clinking on the sheets.

Prianka Bali

He

looked

at

me

like

I

was

another

fixture

Rishita Panchal

Inside the door was as dark as if a hole had been pierced in the cosmos.

Tanvi Borge

She looked as though she was reading the right side of the book with her right eye and the left side of the book with her left eye.

Ashlesha Howal

The noise sounds like an amplified, sonic version of someone’s brainwaves.

Saayli Sangore

Kajal Chaudhari

He begins slowly moving backward as in rewinding film.

Hetvi Sheth

The night was chilly and it carrued with it the damp odour of the surrounding plants.

Roots crawl through the forest floor like a virulent skin disease.

Sumeet Jadhav

Some tiny black bugs were scratching at the underside of the lampshade.

Saumil Sanghavi

Miraj Sutaria

I test each joint and muscle of my body. Every articulation is as it should be.

WE LOOK, WE LISTEN, WE NOTE ODOURS. BUT WE ARE NOT PHYSICALLY PRESENT AT THE PLACE AND WE LEAVE BEHIND NO TRACES. Khushboo Jain

We look. We listen. We note odours. But we are not physically present in the place, and we leave behind no traces.

The sprinkling of stars looked nailed to the spot, unmoving.

Rajvi Anandpara

Aparajita Sanyal

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in.

Faced with intersecting paths, he might spin in place, like a whirlwind, before choosing which he would take‌

...as quiet as a graveyard in the dead of the night.

Abhishek Narkar

Inside it was a hatred like an iceberg floating in a dark sea

Shweta Chawda

These shadows had once clung on to her wife’s body, which had endowed them with the warm breath of life, made them move.

Naitik Gala

It was absolutely delicious, crispy on the outside, the inside so soft it melted.

Palak Khivesara

These shadows had once clung on to her wife’s body, which had endowed them with the warm breath of life, made them move.

Pranal Mahadik

Divya Rajput

They hovered just outside the door, without knocking, like fragments of memory, then slipped away.

They were all terribly old- the smell of ancient paper rose in the air.

Rutuja Vartak

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in.

Priyal Parekh

They were all terribly old- the smell of ancient paper rose in the air.

Saivee Shah

Saivee Shah

Sanjana Pande

Eyes mark the shape of the city.

MURAKAMI COSTUMES Reading produces sensations within the body, images and memories in our minds. The project within the allied design studio was to take phrases from the novels of Haruki Murakami and explore these sensations as reactions on the body.

These became costumes that transformed the body.