Jitish Kallat
99.1 x 67.8 cm
On completing the drawing, the lines are overlaid, one line at a time with an inflammable liquid and set aflame. Appearing like a sacred ritual in the studio backyard, the lines undergo phase transition- from liquid to semisolid to fire, and to fumes that record for posterity the movement of the wind at that moment. The drawing becomes a register of invisible atmospheric flows. Kallat describes the Wind Studies as attempts “to eavesdrop on a silent conversation between wind and fire, like transcripts of an elemental dialogue.”