Meet Me In The Garden

The shifting gardens and the shifting seasons. The garden shifts shapes but somewhere in its depths it hides generations worth of mornings and evenings. The garden grows big and tall but manages to reserve corners to accommodate us all. The garden is intimate and personal yet the garden is for everyone. Staged photography, digital drawing & collages combined with family archives to showcase the relationship most families in northern part of India share with local parks and gardens. Most cities big or small have public parks which either date back to the medieval times or were designed during the colonial era. Public parks quietly occupy space and their visibility depends on seasons and hours of the day. In North India, winter sunbathing is a ritual which is part of every household. Going to parks with packed lunches and just lazing around all afternoon or as we call it ‘sustana’. During the summer and monsoon season, the shifts into ‘shaam ki sair’ or evening walk which is a feeling which only lingers in those humid yet calm yet chaotic gardens. A garden is an escape. A garden is a home. We all come back to pick on our memories. It's our museum of memories. It's our childhood