The project intends to create a public offering for the residents of Old Delhi, in the belief that ‘art’ is primarily for the community and not just the preserve of museums, the elite, collectors and specialists who inhabit the contemporary cultural domain. A traditional material or methodology and a modern technology cohere in a dialogue of two completely different aesthetics, each hospitably receding as the other manifests.

The installation will take the form of a concrete-cum-abstract structure and projection at the Ramlila Ground, a massive open space connecting Old and New Delhi, used frequently for festival gatherings, performances and rallies. The object will be shaped by a grid of five hundred of bamboo poles of different heights, some with lights attached at the top, pushed into the earth at various distances from each other to form a large cube. During the day this will no more and no less than a bamboo sculpture, but when illuminated at night it will take on an apparitional dimension, seeing to sculpt itself between the poles. In the middle of dense number of bamboo poles the image of a small, simple boat appears fleetingly drifting in the dark. The vessel is the literal carrier of many layers of meaning. Not only is it one of mans earliest means of travel, of exploring the work, it also signifies the way this same world was conquered and colonized. At the same time the boat stands for the moment of transitions. Transition from one state to another, from the past to the future and back again, from the traditional materials to the light ones of the future. Or maybe just the transition between the Old Town and the New. The miracle is the miracle of movement and change.