SNIFF & STIGMATA

MEDIUM: BURETTE, GLASS TRAY, UNBAKED BRICK, WATER,LIGHT 
As I have made a brief study on this topic. How the idol of Durga is prepared for the festival, it seems it is a custom, that the dust (mud) of the prostitute's veranda is taken and mixed into the clay.

This act itself is a dialog of the two polarities & their dogma's in the society.

For me, as an artist, the smell which comes out of the clay brick (unbaked) in this work is trying to relate to those dialog, which happens once in a year.

The unbaked brick and its transformation over a span of time is representing the soil of the prostitute area in Calcutta( said to be the 2nd largest red light area in India)
water droplets over the clay brick is representing the connection between the two poles, as mass is providing the life surviving  element to them.

And the glass as a material justifies the observation of seen and unseen reality