During the last period of my practice, I had been working with the idea of invisibility or the difficulty of vision. As in homeopathic medicine, where less is more, I make very light layers of different images in sharp graphic contrast. The eye of the viewer is my target, with the viewer experimenting from different points of view while looking at the image and seeing different pictures.

The work I made for the Khoj Kolkata workshop was a black and white printed checkerboard surface with text at the centre, and a very light invisible face behind the checkerboard pattern. The print was fixed to the terrace wall, lit by an electric light bulb. I also lit candles in the far corner of the terrace.

On the evening of the Open Studio Day, when viewers entered the terrace they saw the electric light shining on the print and were able to read the text, saying ‘LOOK AROUND’. From a short distance this text was visible, but the image of the face was still hidden behind the checkerboard pattern of the print. Viewers who could venture to the far corner of the terrace, where the candles were lit, could see the face in the print, but their eyes were blind to the text.

The artwork itself was ‘geometrical-clinical’, in contrast and alien to the surrounding environment. The text ‘LOOK AROUND’ asked the viewer to see the beauty of the landscape from the vantage point of the Chaudhuribari terrace.