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আবর্তন/Rotation: Exploring the Spatial Ability and Knowledge of Suri, West Bengal: A Journey through its Mobility, 2021-2022

The idea of this project revolves around the intention to explore and observe the mobility of a particular space /place/location (Suri, West Bengal) and how spatial ability and spatial knowledge is interconnected and if they are, then what kind of relationship it could produce through a passage of time.​As per James E. Snead, Clark L. Erickson, J. Andrew Darling, trails, paths, and roads are essential structures of the human landscape. . They provide a means of traversing barriers, making life easier for us. In this project, I explore the relationship between man and space through the use of an apparatus, which is a motorcycle. My objective is to explore if it enlarges man's sense of space and spaciousness. The project is divided into multiple layers that try to configure and question the given . James Weiner's description of the paths captures the complex relationships between space, place, and movement. For the project, I visited this particular road and the places besides. This road (image 1,2,3) crosses lambordarpur, chhora, husnabad, amgacha, tasarkata, pathra these 7 villages. It expands towards Jharkhand at the northern and the western border of Birbhum. This project is deviced into multiple layers. Each layer tried to configure and question the given context through finding criticalities, observing and exploring their expansion through the materiality of drawing, video, photography.​​

The drawings became a residue of that particular movement. The act itself became an act of tracing back the journey .Whereas the video makes me think what happens to the human body which is the measure of direction, location, and distance in presence of tools and machines and how it enlarge man's sense of space and spaciousness.The objective and material reality are the starting point for perception.

These drawings came out while visiting Tasarkata, Bataspur. these are approx. 8-10 km. away from Suri.

arindammanna © 2025

arindammanna © 2025

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