MATCHBOX POEMS-2014-17
PAGES FROM THE MINDWATCH - 2013-17
This is a Photoromance Project conceived by Kavitha alongwith her friends who found randomly interested in sharing their life vis-a-vis their female stereotypes. The language of mockery and image cloning in this project, consciously negate the seriousness of the language of photo-romancing that has an attitude of documentation and a 'political re-draft of the patriarchal social narrative'.'Pages from the Mindwatch' is rather a life that is being lived out and this is raising questions in history
DISPLAY OF MATCHBOX POEMS @ MERZBARN, UK
POEMS & LIES @MERZBARN curated by Charley Holt
Courier
‘Ustad Bismilla Khan’ sent me a courier
When a song was kept to sleep in his lap
It was the latest grown yam in his courtyard.
He plucked it
Washed its dirt off
On a restless morning
Enclosed in hardboard boxes
One inside the other
Covered further in newspaper
Pasted all ends with cello tape,
Again covered in a bigger box
Addressing my name,
A scribble of my mobile number, too
He got up content within,
as he gets up always from those fabulous concert
There is by chance an axe-mark on the yam
and it must have watered itself in strange pink
For my wet palm was getting so scratchy
and itchy with an unknown pain
It seemed an endless wait
On a lonely day at last
It reached at my address.
The packet had started sprouting like a lover’s jeans
Having washed off its dirt again, just out of a habit,
I Kept it safe among those handsome other yams,
Tomatoes Beetroots and drumsticks
Then on a fine morning at last
Taking it out, again by virtue of a habit,
I made a delicious yam
yyyaaam
yyaa
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DISPLAY OF PAGES FROM THE MINDWATCH & OTHER WORKS-2017
A group show of JIGSAW ARTIST'S COLLECTIVE @ Loafers Cafe, FortKochi
Jigsaw is a playful puzzle game. Charlie Holt, Hilary Dehn & Kavitha Balakrishnan, We three artists are three humans constantly moving at quite a distance in time, space and life at large. What connects us would perhaps be our crisscrossing artistic intimacies in some virtual plains and brains. We deal with jumbled genres of drawing, collecting, archiving, collage-ing, connect-ing, poem-ing, designing, cloth-hanging, texts and text-ing amongst us. Histories pass through our varied moments, like bullet trains we have not yet travelled in. We insert our stories in each work but our languages are discreet. At some puzzling moments, in some attempts to make sense of each other’s works and lives, we realize that we only can love the other’s language, if not access, acquire and use it for any prescribed purpose, discipline and context, even so called as Art.
We are interested in non-prescribed spaces that we can create for our temporal uses anywhere in the world. Jigsaw is the name we use, to name any on-going experimental life of artists and poets.
It is our curiously mingling personal, political, and cultural embraces that bring us together from different parts of the world for a life together in collaboration and love, perhaps the only way ahead to deal with conflicts on this earth!
https://jigsawartists.jimdo.com/
CLOTH HANGINGS / LUNGI POEMS
FROM MY SKETCHBOOK OF DAILY DEMOCRACY -2010
