In this project, “Bereavaru kandante nammanu naave kandokolluvudu” Aeneas employs text as a play of one’s perceptions which can easily become distorted by each individuals mental projections. In this case he has commissioned a billboard to display the faces of two Bollywood film stars. Their pupils have been cut away to create a negative space enabling the viewer to see through the eyes of the painted figures. The text on the billboard, which serves as the title, is a quote translated into Kannada, from the poem “To a Louse” by the Scottish poet Robert Burns, which reads “to see ourselves as others see us”.

The Yamanote Line, outside view

This work shows the landscape of Tokyo as seen through the window of the Yamanote Line train, which makes a looped journey through Tokyo, taking one hour and two minutes to make one full circle. In the process the train passes through a broad panorama of the city landscape. This video is presented as a counterbalance to the view seen through the eyes of the Bollywood film stars depicted on the billboard outside.