Ocean’s Narratives...

Once due to heavy rains I had incarnated in Vrindavan in form of floods destroying all the land and things built on it. Then I saw him again but now he held the mountain in little finger and people had taken shelter below it for 7 days. Once the rain had stopped I calmed down then I saw all villagers feeding krishna all the meals he missed on those 7 days and nights

I live in form of milk in Gokul , just as the gods churned me and got amrut similarly the gopis here churn milk to get butter. They value it and keep it safe and far away from krishna but he steals it and make gopis run behind him getting away from mundane daily chores. Gopis used to complaint this to Maa Yashoda but then he used play hide and seek with her.

My friend Chandra used to tell me the gopis in Vrindavan used to sneak out in dark and walk away from the settlement into the forest, where the laws of human society doesn’t exist. No one could see them. The trees used to form a screen and there they used to play rass with Krishna. I wonder when he will perform his rass on my shore.

I still remember the day when he promised Gomti that he would come two times a day to her spend time playing his flute as he used to on the bank of yamuna river under kadamba tree. When he arrives I can’t control the joy he brings, I raise my water level and cross my boundaries, just to have a glimpse of him.

Which Krishna?

Once Maa Yashoda caught Krishna eating mud, she asked him to open his mouth and in his mouth, she saw me in my vast ever-expanding Akashaganga form. She was shocked and couldn’t believe her eyes, How can the whole universe be inside my son’s mouth? He is Narayan he is Virat Infinite in finite form.

At the end of every yuga, I get furious, stormy and I swallow entire landmass creating chaos everywhere and then I see him, in his bal roop floating on a banyan leaf laughing, playing with his toes radiating bliss all around. Looking at him at all his glory makes me calm and brings life back on land.

Serial vision from portal of present to portal of past

This project intends to create a series of transition spaces that take you back into the mythical Dwarka. It allows a person to experience the spaces which are associated with Krishna and Dwarka. The landscape narrates the narrates various events which are associated with Krishna in different stages of his life and eventually end up in the vast endless ocean. The Idea of experiencing the Infinite through the finite is explored through landscape done at the edge of the site. Which blurs the gap between land and Sea. The city’s narrative is read through a section exploring the relationship between what’s above the land and below it, what is above water, and what’s below it, between land and sea. The 7 port cities have lost to the waves of the sea and time is experienced through a series of light towers that reaches the sky and ground below it. The Design is seen as a path, portal, and mainly as an experiential space that connects with the sunken city and experiences the temporal aspect of the city through the cycles of tides. Dwarka or Dwaravati Means the door to eternal bliss the project becomes a doorway to all the past Dwarkas.

Yashoda played with one who is smaller than an atom and one who is bigger than the biggest.

The ocean is vast, and infinite to the human eye, as finite humans it becomes difficult to experience infinite By breaking the vast ocean into smaller parts one can experience the water in different ways.