Sculptural beauty of trees
Deccan ChronicleShe is not a trained or professional photographer. I was taken aback by the angst I felt, and found myself hugging trees in parks for solace,” she says, Soon, she started shooting them, from about the same height and distance — a series she called ‘Intimate Conversations’. A picture from the series ‘Life will not be denied’ She goes on to say, “I am aware that I owed this vocabulary of hugging trees to generations of thinkers and activists before me. Nowadays when I hear news of thousands of trees being cut for ‘smart’ city projects or river interlinking, I turn to them with my camera to look for relief and inspiration.” Loktak man fishing Mossy home bricks It was her Photosphere mentor Aditya Arya who suggested that she try to work with trees and roots that emerge from old buildings and walls. Many thinkers say that our current ecological crisis began with our faulty understanding that the ‘human’ is not part of ‘nature’, that nature is something separate, to be used, exploited, enjoyed… I love how in these trees, nature forces itself out of the boundaries made for it, insisting that it will not be kept in a separate niche,” she adds.
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