Sense of Abandonment

Installation

2018

     I am taking up family belongings as the elements of family portrayal and the tradition of showing respect to the food we eat and the tools we use. Seeking the object `kule’ a traditional crop measuring object. I am trying to extract its association with other objects and the link with the family’s history of farming. As the food we grow and the equipment we used works as the source of personal and collective heritage. The preparations that goes through before the farming I seems relatable to me as my grandparents use to spend time mending the sacks to hold the grains. Though we no longer continue farming we still try to preserve the tools we used.

Inability to cope up with modern ways of farming has led people for better economic options. There prevails the encroachment of land for urbanizations to settle ever-growing population. The land is used to supply raw materials to cook solid blocks of bricks which in turn fuels as the material for expanding concrete jungle while nourishing life-giving layer of land gets covered up. Transference of the medium using clay to make grains and firing it to make it solid is to show the concretization of land and the dying tradition associated with farming. to farming

                                                                                                                                   -Hitesh Vaidya