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Windows and Hinges
Windows and Hinges
My installation is a gratitude to all the keyworkers of this pandemic and a prayer in the memory of the ones who were lost. During the last 1 year, I have often felt like a plastic mannequin which someway and somehow is holding on to a hope that things will improve. It was not easy when earlier on in March 2020 I tested positive for Covid. In isolation, I often used to look at the blank ceiling and wonder about the safety of my family. I remember the panic and the scare, when I recovered and my wife who was still breastfeeding our daughter was diagnosed with Covid. April 2020 was a better month as all of us had recovered however working at the hospital and seeing patients in their home was still not easy.
The 14 paintings in the installation with their small squares represent the events that have happened in the last 1 year.
The anger of lockdown
The shortage of burial ground
The impatient wait for vaccine
The 14 days of quarantine
The non-believers
The conspiracy deceivers
The empty markets
The pilings of caskets
The road side pyres
The beats on wires
The gasps for air
The empty bedside chair
The many with lonely gaze
The emotional maze
The plenty of excuses
The blue of domestic abuses
The windows of hope
The hinges of fear
The stories of those masks
The dried up tears
The folded hands
The storm to clear
The religion, the race,
The borders and those games
The virus that reminded us
All same.
Amit Sharma
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