The Breath of Mother India

MindPalace

Artwork Description:

A physarum swarm shaped like India, alive and breathing. Eleven years of PM2.5 readings move through it. It feeds on the pollution and burns brighter as the air gets worse, while the offices that measure that air cap and hide it. A work about air, measurement, and who holds the numbers.

Project Collaborators:

R. Venkatraman / Vinit Patil