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Billboard/Mural for the Kala Ghoda Festival
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<span class="painting">2003
Dimensions: 15 feet x 59 feet. 
Workshop with children from the “Society for the Education of the crippled”
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CONCEPTUAL NOTATIONS 

The starting point for the public project overlooking the Kala Ghoda precinct was the history of the place itself. We decided to take certain cues from the name of the place and its curious past; thereafter we went on to design the piece keeping in mind public interactivity and visual engagement in an active civic space.

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CONCEPTUAL NOTATIONS 

The starting point for the public project overlooking the Kala Ghoda precinct was the history of the place itself. We decided to take certain cues from the name of the place and its curious past; thereafter we went on to design the piece keeping in mind public interactivity and visual engagement in an active civic space.

The absent ‘black horse’ from the equestrian statue of King Edward VII installed in 1879 
became our take off point. The fact that it was amongst the many statutes targetted by political 
activists in 1965 as part of a mission to vandalise statues of British personalities was of interest to us as it became one of the many symbols of our post-colonial struggle against the memory of the Raj.  In spite of the statue being shifted to the neutral and less interactive space of the Jijamata Udyan, it continues to lend its name to the busy junction at Esplanade Road, unwilling to fully retreat into the silent garden enclosure. The collective memory of the people has ensured its absentee landlord status.

We conceived of a large “multi-coloured” horse (which when viewed from a distance merges into a brown horse) on whose back a map of the city of Mumbai is mounted; democratising the format of the traditional equestrian statute. The horse itself is formed by predominantly red, green and scarlet-yellow circles which may be interpreted as the “stop”, “get set” and “go” traffic lights that regulate the frenzied city. The map is formed by texts derived from classified job opportunity columns in the news papers. All around this massive horse are small inputs from children who rendered their version of the city. 

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