biglove sentipost

There are geological events in your lifetime, shifts and readjustments.  People you know all your life, family and friends carry these years layered under their skin. Their blood is connected to yours in shared histories and events like subterranean flows of thick lava, magma or streams. Lives interlocked tight.

Meghu got married in cochin to anoop- families and bloodlines, arboreal, spreading meeting and expanding. New places and people become part of you.

My sister married. Beautiful in the nath, the half sari and  1000 mogras in her hair. Mallu food and  that watery lazy landscape outside forming the backdrop to her loveliness. 

camera & mirrors

crepuscular

the city bloomed colour all around us
(apu saying this in gujju)
the sky streaked with pink and gold as the sun went down
the huge moon suspended to our left
uv signs and glazed buildings catching the turning light
the cables of the sealink glowing and shadowed
flags and birds fluttering above the silhoutted edges
beautiful coloured evening as we sped towards churchgate yesterday

birthday picnic and architecture tours

I asked for a picnic as a gift and got one.walked to the jewish cemetery, and the beautiful 80's built brutalist 80's monument to the shipwreck victims .
I saw samira's work.
I loved her house that is made to weather and age and transform. that makes its own rules and architectural language, which playfully and shamelessly conflates the mundane and sublime.

also extremely inspiring to see such amazing work by a girl making her own idea of what architecture can be. such few women architect role models while studying architecture. I am fan, amazing architecture- madness and beauty.

walking with apu and oohing all the modernist architecture of bombay is also fun. This time it was the godrej building. which i fell in love with on my occasional walks. It has the belief in new material- glass, aluminum, with exquisite industrially produced cladding that is elevated to ornament and tracery with beautiful detailing. The green glazing clad by a lace-like veil of aluminum cladding sections. The ground floor clad in granite that mirrors the crenelations of the aluminum, over which the veil floats. The plinth is articulated as a thick slab on which the entire building sits. and the roof visible in fragments from which the watertank box and the straggling branches of champa trees rise, a garden on the roof, that must have fabulous views of azad maidan. The layers of the building each clearly articulated- function elevated to ornament.