From Point, Line and Triangles - to the Cosmos
2024 | Backlit, Paper-cast Translucent Porcelain, Resin-set 600gsm Cardstock, Ms Frame Powder-coated, Led Lights
Earth, an infinitesimal,
speck of dust in the cosmos.
You and I, feeling
amorphous, labouring, from
the clay of this Earth.
Dust and water, mixed together.
Forever pulled by gravity,
pummelled and tread underfoot.
Dark, dank with the
sweet petrichor of Karma,
the unbearable heaviness
of being.
To imagine…
the vastness,
the lightness,
the infinite,
that WE are.
The amorphous earth
transformed with precision,
rolled out thinnest
to breaking point,
from that point to line,
and from that line to triangles,
verily triangles…to cosmos.
In the spiritual
kiln of release,
the smooth and supple
heaviness,
It burns,
and cracks open.
The beauty of the façade
disappears,
A glorious lightness,
an innermost radiance.
It takes a million cracks
and a billion triangles,
to escape the
amorphous heaviness.
Earth no longer
tread underfoot.
But flying in the air.
Not like specks of dust
off parched Earth
picked up by a hot summer wind.
But like the billowing
fiery cosmic storm itself,
that builds trillions
of Suns and Earths.
ANKON MITRA is an architect and internationally acclaimed artist of the technique of folds. He is the recipient of the All-India Gold Medal for Sculpture in 2018 and the Lexus Design Award for Craft Design in 2020. His folding studio is Oritecture = Ori (folds) + Architecture. He firmly believes the Universe is made and unmade from acts of folding. An alumnus (magna cum laude) of the Bartlett, University College London, his work has been exhibited in 15 countries and his sculptures and installations are part of prestigious collections (public and private) all over the world. His most recent exhibitions were at the Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Art in Odd Places, New York and the Shanghai Paper Art Biennale.
REVATI JAYAKRISHNAN is an artist, designer, maker and educator. A graduate of IICD, Jaipur with an MA in Contemporary Crafts from UCA, Farnham, UK, she runs Rare Studios - a practice specializing in ceramics and glass. Her work is part of the Sanskriti Museum, New Delhi and has been exhibited at the London Design Festival (2014) and the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (2016). A recipient of NCECA’s Multicultural Fellowship (2016), she presented her research at the 2023 NCECA conference in the USA. She is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Creativity, Rishihood University, Sonipat.
