Photography03-From Auroville to Vancouver

Where frozen music becomes visible, cities reveal their souls, and forgotten humans stand in plain sight

Architecture as Frozen Music

Sergei Eisenstein says that great architecture is like frozen music. I tried imagining what it would look like. The pieces of architecture I always liked seemed to me as paintings, but I never was able to understand the immense beauty in making it.

In Auroville I saw these structures that were extensions of the earth itself. Unknowingly they crept out of the ground. All the structures are pieces of art in themselves. Just sitting down there looking around I could hear the music of these structures. Finally I understood what frozen music sounds like.

Better late than never. For more than half my life architecture was my destiny. As a child I grew up being told that I will become an architect since I loved drawing. Never actually imagined myself as an architect but I told anyone who asked that I will be an architect or painter.

इंसान | I'm Human

आवाज़ मेरी नज़र आती है, मगर सुनते नहीं हो तुम. सामने खड़ा रहता हूँ में पर एक रोज़ देकते नहीं हो तुम. भगवन को भी चेहरा मेरा ही दिया है, तो दो बोल इस्सी चेहरे से कर लो.

Translation: You can see me talking, but you still don't listen, I'm standing in front of you, and still you don't even look at me. God is shown with my body and skin, so why don't you talk to me for a while instead?

I tried to illustrate these lines through this video.

Delhi Through Another Lens

The next photos are not by me. I have been wanting to do this for a while now. Because I was busy with work I didn't actually get a chance to capture Delhi.

Thanks to Vicky Chacha... some of these photos are taken by him. The funny part is that the font appears to be moving in opposite direction, when I animated in the same direction (to the left).

Pune's Morning Rhythms

On Sunday mornings at 8 you can hear rangoli playing in people's houses. A series of daily trivial photos of Pune.

These shots capture the city's heartbeat - not the monuments or famous structures, but the everyday moments that give Pune its character. The morning light hitting half-closed shutters, chai being served in steel glasses, early cyclists navigating empty streets.

Next Stop: Vancouver

Next city is Vancouver... the space race, a series of grids.
Photos from Vancouver Were posted on insta, till removed them. May update and upload it here later.