Yog Raj Chitrakar walks the length of Mumbai, from North to South and back. He walks for two days, carrying charcoal and canvas, perforating the ever-shifting membrane between art and life with every step. Chitrakar, the picture maker, stops now and again to, well, make pictures. Familiar scenes of Chowpatty Beach and the Oval Maidan find alternative expression in his strokes and smudges; a new face of Mumbai is born on his black and white canvas. At night, he sleeps in the waiting rooms of train stations, the rattle of the rails running through his dreams.
Editor's Note.
From an early age, wandering children learn the act of carrying a journal. The diaries themselves tell a story, bruised and creased at the journey’s end; the scent of new visions and reformed ideas soaking their pages.
Travel: A distance crossed, a state altered through time.
At the heart of all ancient, ritualistic artistic, performance and storytelling traditions is this ‘Trans-identity’: all life is transient and constantly transforming until a feeling of transcendence is achieved.
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At the heart of all ancient, ritualistic artistic, performance and storytelling traditions is this ‘Trans-identity’: all life is transient and constantly transforming until a feeling of transcendence is achieved.
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