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| Drawing begun on an Amtrak/ Rail Canada train |
Two
round-trip journeys sparkle in my minds eye: New York-Chicago Albuquerque, and
New York-Toronto. Dad, an engine driver ferried freight from Mumbai's docks to
the holding yards. His stories still impact me, catalyzing my thoughts arriving
in the stillness. An Amtrak Residency, I feel would realign my soul; moreover
certainly to the rhythm of its rails. Here, the American landscape would be a
backdrop to my being — as a naturalized American.
It is
the shaping line moving though space that shapes my mind, relays meaning,
conveys an essence of something which in turn extends/ unfurls/ amplifies it.
Embarking on a journey is essentially about being synonymous with a line
wrought by the behemoth running on tracks, moving through space, shearing it
yet in engagement with the ground against its own image and of the traveler. A
line represents the intent instilled through it as it spans two or more points.
My search is for possibilities in phenomena that pass across and within my
senses.
The
geography of my imagination reflects on phenomena as experienced. Language
informs my work, and I would like to continue using my dual path of
expression, which also includes drawing at a complex level. So I straddle
text and image, buttressed by meaning sought through writing.
Pulsation:
theologies of line, and of journey. The train denotes and connotes line, and
linearity, yet in no way is limited to linear thinking. A train journey,
enacted by the engine, the cars, its staff and passengers runs along a finite
route as far as the eye can see, a seeing that would surely collate expanses,
vistas, undulations in topologies, into thoughts.
