From the project This Isn't Divide and Conquer. A project rooted in family history that branches out into a journey. Journey across the 5 states of India that border Pakistan. Trying to understand the direct and indirect impact of the colonial heritage in India. Focusing on the ‘ever changing landscape’ aspect, we arrived in this sandstone mine. It was a landscape I had never seen before and I was enamoured by it. The relation between humans and our surroundings is something that has deeply interested me in my practice so far. What was supposed to be only 15-20 minutes ended up being 2-3 hours, under the scorching afternoon sun. The landscape seemed so vast and the showed or rather illustrated how humans interacted with the surroundings, using it for their own benefits. The capitalist, post colonial mindset of encroaching the land that surrounds us.
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| Photographer | Aaryan Sinha |
