Aakansha Ghosh

Tracing Time II

12 pieces (7.8 inch in diameter)
Used Coffee Filters and Cotton Thread

A window unlike a door has advanced with time to give us control of what we want to experience from the outside. How much to see, feel, and hear. It acts as a frame with a picture on both sides. And with the situation that we all are going through it gives us lucky ones the opportunity to connect with the outside on our terms.

With this work, I have tried to capture the way I have been experiencing the outside from a window. The light penetrating through it activates the space and has become a significant aspect of sustaining a routine in life. I collected the used coffee filters to knit the mapping of the intangible and ephemeral dynamics of sunlight and its interaction with the immediate urban landscape visible through my window. The linearity translates the imperceptible potency and delicate infiltration of natural light, its immaterial intensity that shifts the perception of space and time. Thus hoping to bridge the gap between the outside and the inside.

On a side note the process of drying and sticking together the coffee filters, its texture and materiality reminded me of a very popular Indian snack, “papadum.” And since the lockdown, being by myself in this new country it was nostalgic to use something mundane here which reminded me of home.

Aakansha Ghosh is a visual artist, whose research has been developing to deconstruct, decode and depict the role of architecture in context to the notion of memory and individuality, in and of places. She has completed her Bachelors in Visual Arts from Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S University of Baroda, India. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Fine Arts in interdisciplinary studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her works have been shown in Vadodara, Goa and Delhi.