In The Forest Of Lies
“….I loved Science, Stars, and Nature, but then I loved people without knowing that people have long since divorced from nature. Our feelings are second-hand. our love is constructed. Our beliefs are colored. Our originality is valid through artificial art. It has become truly difficult to love without getting hurt.
The value of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote. To a number. To a thing. Never was a man treated as a mind. As a glorious thing made up of stardust. In every field, in studies, in streets, in politics, and in dying and living….”
( – From the Suicide Letter of Rohith Vemula, Research Scholar of Hyderabad Central University )
On 17th January 2016, Rohith took his own life on the university campus, a tragic end influenced by severe discrimination based on caste.
In The Forest Of Lies
A visual project that addresses the issue of the increasing number of wildlife deaths and the decreasing number of greens in urban areas. I was inspired to undertake this project after witnessing the destruction of a tree that was once home to birds and the subsequent installation of fake bird caricatures in its place.
The project aims to show how our society prefers to build lifeless fake imitations of nature rather than preserving the real thing. I believe that we are sacrificing our children to the ghosts of the natural world by promoting fake animal caricatures in urban spaces. We are choosing concrete and plastic over life, which ultimately leads to extinction. We have given rise to “eco-urban villages,” blasphemous names for blasphemous purposes. We ride our children on ghostly caricatures of once-living creatures, sacrificing our newborns to our animated artefacts. The project tries to reveal the truth that is being overlooked by the elite society, who often mock death and make it funny.
Publication: The Art Documentor Project