Under the dust
2018-2020
In recent times, when everything has come to stand still, has immobility imprisoned people’s aspirations, suffocating their intrinsic nature, overlapping their perspectives?
The work focuses on the opaque quality of dust, its subtle and subversive way of covering us until the accumulation is too much to ignore; our modern living covering us in ever increasing layers of material until in time we cannot breathe, feel or sense. How thick is the layer of dust covering our lives? How long can we let it lie there untouched before we see what is beneath? Where does the dust even come from?
Kadam dusting himself
Unuttered, unmoved,
when the silence of the vase
speaks of its presence.
through the layer of dust,
thin and opaque.
covering its skin,
I see myself in that stillness.
untouched, unnoticed.
my body, my mind,
under the thin scarce layer
Of dust,
present yet unseen.