point 33, distilled
All in flux again. I pack and move. I look around and amid the uncertainty my eyes come to rest on faint traces. The shadowy outlines, left by furniture and pictures that were here just a moment ago, slowly start to dissolve. Empty yet filled they gaze back accentuating the positive and negative, and the cloistered space in-between.
Adapting to a new place means memorizing yet another map. The boxes are not all unpacked, perhaps they never will be. Limitations make things possible: four walls of a small room, a pool of light, fragile frames that my grandmother had sewn from cherished bits of cloth to adorn the sacred, and a gift of rock salt for luck in the new home.
Varsha Nair has done a series of works relating to point 33. Taking the 32 points of a compass that point outward and in different directions, she presents point 33 as pointing in the direction within us.
Varsha Nair has presented her work at National Review of Live Art, Glasgow (2004), and National Review of Live Art Midland, Perth (2005). Her solo and collaborative works have been exhibited internationally and in Thailand where she lives. Since 1997, she has also co-organized various art projects and has been invited as a speaker at international symposia including Public Art In(ter)vention held in Chiang Mai (2005); 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women held at EWHA University in Seoul (2005), and co.operation, a conference on feminist art practise and theory held in Dubrovnic, Croatia in 2000. Born in Kampala, Uganda, Varsha has a BFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda, India.