These digital collages revolve around the theme of how we allow the mind to keeps us busy by making our own little universe, with our identities and beliefs, which only leads us away from the existential reality. It is also about our true self which tries to find its voice to guide us to that which matters … Continue reading
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The Whispers of Antiques
By Shaily Mishra Shaily Mishra is a final-year undergraduate student of journalism at Kalindi College, Delhi University. She is a budding cinematographer who likes to be called a feminist visual storyteller. She mostly drifts around mining the repository of forgotten and underrated Indian Cinema or attempts to unclog her writer’s block. She can be found … Continue reading
Discovering the Internet
Featured Artwork by Sanno Singh The internet dawned on me, much after, it did on my generation of internet users. While my friends made Facebook and Club Penguin Accounts, streamed movies online, and wrote elaborate emails to each other, I was still waiting in line with my library card in the school library, week after … Continue reading
Nostalgia
These artworks are the embodiment of a cancelled summer. A limited colour palette and wistful memories come together seamlessly to create 6 images that are merry, high-spirited and spunky. An ode to the summers we took for granted, and hope in favour of better times yet to come, each image is an indication of what … Continue reading
Reflection through Re-creation
The Cinema Edition || Every time I come across a frame that I really like, I pause, take a screenshot and save it in a separate folder – just an attempt to preserve my favourite movie stills. However, recently, I realized that these stills are great reference material for painting and sketching. Continue reading
Gaze
The Cinema Edition || This time, we attach wings to him. It’s Amrita’s idea. Once in a while, she hits upon something actually good. Dev looks wonderful like this, spreadeagled on the divan with one wing crumpled under his back and the other brushing the wall, wearing his oversized t-shirt and nothing underneath except the thigh highs. Continue reading
Our (Un)Familiar Childhood
The Cinema Edition. Since it started over 90 years ago, Disney has become a household name, synonymous with all of our childhood dreams and fantasies. We grew up idolizing the princes and the princesses, rooting for the underdog, crying tears of joy when families got back together, and so much more. Continue reading
Tales of the Blue City
I took these photographs in the old city of Jodhpur, when I was there for a few hours. The blue was overwhelming but fascinating. I wanted to hold it all in my hand. I wanted to turn into Steve McCurry for just those few hours. But this is what I got. By Shubhdeep Kaur Shubhdeep … Continue reading
Surrealism and French Expressionism : Un Chien Andalou & Cœur fidèle
The Cinema Edition. In an era where the film’s narrative capabilities were being explored and the focus of cinema was slowly shifting to story driven ventures and articulations of establishing shots, continuity and story telling conventions, Continue reading
A Letter To My (Dying) Room
An Edition of ‘Ease’ Dear Room, Today is probably the last time I meet you, before someone else who doesn’t know of your silences, tears you down. However heartbreaking it sounds but right now when I look at you, I feel you; you are living and I also know of your dying breaths. That day … Continue reading