So many months ago, when Ruchita was in Ahmedabad, figuring out life, the universe and what the heck she was supposed to be doing with it, she went picture-taking with her Nikon D50 one day and came back with an idea.
That idea transformed inside her head and on her computer screen and became a series of collages of spaces she encountered on her picture making trips to the Old City and around Paldi village. She drags stillwater, the hooked nose and jeetpal around the city with her, annoys them endlessly while fidgeting with her digital files until she makes 12 collages she really likes. Then she puts them away and returns to Mumbai
Fast forward one year and stillwater sends her a call for entries to a photography group show at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2010 in Mumbai. Ruchita thinks. Then decides to send her collages in as an entry: just to play with the curators a bit.
A month later they say Yes, they would like her to put up a wall at their exhibition.
And now you have it: Stretching Space a selection of my photo-collages running at the KGAF ’10 from February 6 to February 14, 2010. It’s open all-day, everyday on the pavement outside Max Mueller Bhavan at Kala Ghoda
Here is a collage from the set. Click on the image to see a larger version. To see more, please visit my Flickr set at this address
