Studio Obtuse / Neha Mishra
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commute / hallucination
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In rotation
Reading rotation
Read into rotation
Rotate and redefine
Rotate in redefinition
{ cut to station sounds : cut to white wall with brown water stains that eat into the tiles : cut to not you in the mirror only an empty seat when did the lady get off : cut to a pretty dog walks in : a small continuous shot }
Rectangular rotation
{ dog breaks the loop : movement registers for a bit : suspended in a behavioural vacuum everyone looks at the dog with kind eyes : there are kind eyes, yes }
Rigged faults, artistic rotation?
{ would you look at the curls on that dog, look at how she shivers from not knowing : nobody taught her the ground would move like that }
Overlaps and reversal
reverse rotation
{ this is where this train terminates : nor going, nor coming : non-place, limbo, get off? stay? maybe stay for half a minute }
Colours and glitches
world and wonders
wonderful rotation
{ no dinner, maybe tea? : tired eyes tired legs tired mind the day is tired nighttime is warm we can just stay here and not move not get up, morning always comes, come morning and we’ll see }
Upward, inward
Is it a spiral then?
Revolution?
Orchestrated revolution
{ temperature control : permissions : ambiance and aesthetics : understandable confusion }
Nothing evolves
Lightless revolution
Vacuum
{ no talking : no listening : headphones and liquid light }
Then lies
{ manners and directions : constant reversal : wary eyes }
Then delusion
delusional revolution
the beginning of time?
Historical revolution
Kings of paper
Fragile formation
Formation of systems
Systemic formation
{ there is repetition in thought : restrained invention : there is leakage in your rebellion : listen here, practice caution }
Formation of art
Artistic gradation
Gradients taking form
Vibrant formation
{ whoever told you that beauty was always newness? }
{ i see trees run along, trees (how beautiful) they have stayed, they have seen : birds and buildings : folding days, forgotten frolic }
{ afraid of ladybugs : afraid of touch : afraid of eyes, looking back, looking longer, lingering : afraid of the unordinary : there was no beginning of the fear : we saw it and we learnt : we lived in the ordinary and forgot our words : now we’re numbered people with numbered days, giving a number of excuses, to not change our ways }
{ but isn’t this a capsule? mere passing? transit? On the train, we can be anyone we want to be, nobody sees, nobody remembers, the shuffle erases all evidence of momentary free will : trains are convenient }
Caffeine
Vibration
Figuration
Pacing
Hydration
There is tension
In living
a grave situation
systemic dance
transaction of interaction
{ distortion : erosion : affection : rotation : rotation }
All a little lifeless
Rotating marionettes
Following a world in translation
{ hallucination : lucid dreaming : assertion of truth }
{ illustrated function }
Can you read the movement
Of time and lines
{ of ambition : of madness }
{ despite sedation : despite negation }
It moves forward
In circles
Shedding skin
Showing abrasion
{{{{{ erosion }}}}}
Here’s your destination.