The Touch and Smell Missing
The Smell and Touch Missing
Artist’s Statement:
Time leaves marks, be it on personal memories or even the moments of memories that are captured in stills. Time has its own colour, the mixture of a bit of Prussian Blue and Crimson Red.
In pre-digital era, there were family albums where the photographs were placed on the pitch-black fuzzy papers with tiny brown folded paper cones to hold them in place. There were moments in black and white, but the joy captured was chromatic. There were faces which faded but were never forgotten. Unlike the digital photographs, time has a deep relationship with these physical prints. They faded and browned with time recreating images within the captured realities.
Created from the same concept of capturing and recreating memories , this series has a surrealistic approach where bits and pieces of personal narration comes together to become a unique collage where Time mixes Blue, a tone of nostalgia with Red, a symbol of blood and kinship to create the tones of Brown.
Time leaves marks, be it on personal memories or even the moments of memories that are captured in stills. Time has its own colour, the mixture of a bit of Prussian Blue and Crimson Red.
In pre-digital era, there were family albums where the photographs were placed on the pitch-black fuzzy papers with tiny brown folded paper cones to hold them in place. There were moments in black and white, but the joy captured was chromatic. There were faces which faded but were never forgotten. Unlike the digital photographs, time has a deep relationship with these physical prints. They faded and browned with time recreating images within the captured realities.
Created from the same concept of capturing and recreating memories , this series has a surrealistic approach where bits and pieces of personal narration comes together to become a unique collage where Time mixes Blue, a tone of nostalgia with Red, a symbol of blood and kinship to create the tones of Brown.
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Piu Mahapatra
is a practising artist, facilitator, and art
consultant by profession. She also writes to capture her imageries. Her
articles on Art Education are published in various magazines in India and
Virginia. She loves to let her hair go down and make attempts to write
and illustrate for children. An alumna of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, Piu lives
in Virginia and also resides at Kolkata, her hometown.