The temporal ‘life’ of an art work and the ephemerality of the much prized art object is highlighted by Bobby’s time and space specific paper installation that is destroyed at the conclusion of the exhibition. Constructing a section of his work out of newspapers (a material that is relegated to the category of waste the moment it is read) and glue, Bobby mulls over the abstract nature of the human mind and ideals. He addresses the disintegration of belief systems- perhaps a destruction of optimism itself, through his personal history. Bobby belongs to a farming family from rural assam, a state assigned to the fringes of the indian nation. He speaks in the voice of an ‘insider’, critically questioning the conditions of farming communities all over the country- in assam, andhra pradesh, nandigram the list is endless. in the contradictions inherent in this country’s constitutional claim to socialism, Bobby mulls over the extremes represented by the hyper- urban metropolitan cities on the one hand, and the barely surviving rural farming communities on the other. in the realisation that many ideals are but abstract with no existence in the immediate temporal world, Bobby assumes a critical position, albeit one that is expressed through quietude.