idli

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I shut the door 

THUD

My mother, my uncle and my grandmother turned to look at me.

My mother asked, “Why are you panting?, Did you run?”

I stood there in shock, breathless

My mother standing at the kitchen table, turned to her stripping

leaves from the stalk, uncle sleeping on the sofa flipping channels, mother glanced at me again,

“Why did you run?”

There was silence.

My grandmother was busy cleaning a pot.

“i was touched”

Silence

My mother took a deep breath

It was my uncle who broke the silence,”The roads are very dangerous these days no?”. He said to my mother. Got up from the sofa and walked inside towards the kitchen table.

I was standing there. All I could feel was my cheeks, they were turning hotter and my ears, they were experiencing a kind of ringing which I prided myself for having every now and then as I believed it to be and still do to be the sound of the universe.

My grandmother was scrubbing off any dust she could find on the pot.

My mother, stripping the leaves from the stalk asked me, “do you want Upma or Idli we have both.”

i never liked upma

YAYOI KUSAMA : 1960s to Now (Artist Guide)

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This is three page brochure about the artist, Yayoi Kusama and her life and achievements. This is available in two different languages having varied audiences in mind. Yayoi Kusama is the inventor of polka dots and infinity mirrors and has been contributed everything from polka pumpkins to infinite worlds filled with lights.

The pictures in this brochure are not mine and the credit to the artist and the photographer are given in the design.

The prototype Artist Guide

JAPANESE ARTIST GUIDE

This is one side of the Japanese artist guide. The rightmost page is the opening side. The space is to indicate different pages which are otherwise attached.

This is one side of the Japanese artist guide. The rightmost page is the backside. The space is to indicate different pages which are otherwise attached.

ENGLISH ARTIST GUIDE

This is one side of the English artist guide. The rightmost page is the opening side. This is three pages (one side) of the artist guide and is folded like normal three page brochures. The folding space is the same as the Japanese artist guide shown above.

This is one side of the English artist guide. The rightmost page is the backside. This is three pages (one side) of the artist guide and is folded like normal three page brochures. The folding space is the same as the Japanese artist guide shown above.

YAYOI KUSAMA 1960s to Now (Exhibition Poster)

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This is a poster of a Yayoi Kusama Exhibition in the Mori Arts Museum in Tokyo. I made the poster in a similar format to the usual museum posters in Japan. They are either bilingual or they make identical posters in Japanese and English. I tried my hand at making my first bilingual poster. I am learning Japanese right now so, that helped me at putting this together.

This is not an exhibition that took place. The photograph used in this design is not mine, the credit has been given to the artist and the photographer in the work itself.

PLAYS UNPLEASANT : GUIDE

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Playbills are not often given where I live but, I made some for my hypothetical theatre production, George Bernard Shaw’s Plays Unpleasant by Little Productions theatre company. The animals represent the characters in their respective plays.

I also designed the inside page. Since this is a very small production, the playbill will be small too. But, there will be on playbill for each play.