“22. Some things do change, however. A membrane can simply rip off your life, like a skin of congealed paint torn off the top of a can. I remember that day very clearly: I had received a phone call. A friend had been in an accident. Perhaps she would not live. She had very little face, and her spine was broken in two places. She had not yet moved; the doctor described her as “a pebble in water.” I walked around Brooklyn and noticed that the faded periwinkle of the abandoned Mobil gas station on the corner was suddenly blooming. In the baby-shit yellow showers at my gym, where snow sometimes fluttered in through the cracked gated windows, I noticed that the yellow paint was peeling in spots, and a decent, industrial blue was trying to creep in. At the bottom of the swimming pool, I watched the white winter light spangle the cloudy blue and I knew together they made God. When I walked into my friend’s hospital room, her eyes were a piercing, pale blue and the only part of her body that could move. I was scared. So was she. The blue was beating.”
From “Bluets” by Maggie Nelson. 2009.
Objects and Invisible emotions. “Bluets” is a navigation of colour blue through emotions. There are many emotions which are often felt but rarely translated into words. The act of weeping is often less spoken and less understood. The excerpts of Bluets, and other collected phrase/ photographs/ text/postcards : will gather under a book, than can be touched, dismantled and used as a letter. A letter which traces invisible emotions beyond scratch and word. Viewers are encouraged to touch, unfold the book by themselves.
Urna Sinha.
Urna Sinha presented a reading of extracts from ‘Bluets’ by Maggie Nelson, along with postcards for Womanifesto 2020: Gatherings. Voices from the courtyard, Baroda, on December 20, 2020.
Urna was born and raised in Santiniketan, West Bengal. Her practice revolves around three segments, collecting-looking & thinking. She completed her Masters degree from the Department of Printmaking, M.S. University of Baroda (2018-2020). Previously, she gained a Bachelors degree from Department of Printmaking, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan (2014-18). During that period, she also completed a spring semester at Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts TALM, Angers, France, as an exchange student (2017). In 2020, she was selected by MHRD and China Scholarship Council for an International Masters program in Contemporary Art, Hangzhou, China. Currently she lives and works from Santiniketan, West Bengal and Baroda.
“22. Some things do change, however. A membrane can simply rip off your life, like a skin of congealed paint torn off the top of a can. I remember that day very clearly: I had received a phone call. A friend had been in an accident. Perhaps she would not live. She had very little face, and her spine was broken in two places. She had not yet moved; the doctor described her as “a pebble in water.” I walked around Brooklyn and noticed that the faded periwinkle of the abandoned Mobil gas station on the corner was suddenly blooming. In the baby-shit yellow showers at my gym, where snow sometimes fluttered in through the cracked gated windows, I noticed that the yellow paint was peeling in spots, and a decent, industrial blue was trying to creep in. At the bottom of the swimming pool, I watched the white winter light spangle the cloudy blue and I knew together they made God. When I walked into my friend’s hospital room, her eyes were a piercing, pale blue and the only part of her body that could move. I was scared. So was she. The blue was beating.”
From “Bluets” by Maggie Nelson. 2009.
Objects and Invisible emotions. “Bluets” is a navigation of colour blue through emotions. There are many emotions which are often felt but rarely translated into words. The act of weeping is often less spoken and less understood. The excerpts of Bluets, and other collected phrase/ photographs/ text/postcards : will gather under a book, than can be touched, dismantled and used as a letter. A letter which traces invisible emotions beyond scratch and word. Viewers are encouraged to touch, unfold the book by themselves.
Urna Sinha.
Urna Sinha presented a reading of extracts from ‘Bluets’ by Maggie Nelson, along with postcards for Womanifesto 2020: Gatherings. Voices from the courtyard, Baroda, on December 20, 2020.
Urna was born and raised in Santiniketan, West Bengal. Her practice revolves around three segments, collecting-looking & thinking. She completed her Masters degree from the Department of Printmaking, M.S. University of Baroda (2018-2020). Previously, she gained a Bachelors degree from Department of Printmaking, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan (2014-18). During that period, she also completed a spring semester at Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts TALM, Angers, France, as an exchange student (2017). In 2020, she was selected by MHRD and China Scholarship Council for an International Masters program in Contemporary Art, Hangzhou, China. Currently she lives and works from Santiniketan, West Bengal and Baroda.