हिरण्य तत्त्व | Golden Element. With textual excerpts from The Bhagawat Gita, The Vedas, The Upanishads, and Sunyatasaptati, Seventy Verses on Sunyata by Nagarjuna (pseudepigraph). Shot on location in Varanasi, India, 21- 24 June 2017.It is a collaboration between myself and my artist friends – delhi based artist Aarti Zaveri, art historian and Ajanta Scholar Dr. Rajesh K. Singh, and my dear friend Kishan Sharma who is an art student in Banaras Hindu University.After a visit to Varanasi, I recorded a music track ‘हिरण्य तत्त्व | Golden Element’. While then tried to play around with the footage recorded by Aarti and Kishan. Later we all put our heads together in an experimental process of juxtaposing the footage, with the music track, video effects, and some translations of ancient philosophical texts. While playing around with these elements a narrative began to emerge, and thus this work was created as a kind of automatism.
