Gauri Nevatia

LA4015-3

Beneath our feet is an ecosystem so astonishing that it tests the limits of our imagination. Forest hide countless wonders that encouraged me to slow down, bear witness and unveil the mysteries of the underground world. It is just like we inhabit above the ground, in a parallel world there is an alternate universe, that lies beneath the ground, which remains unfathomed. Through this lens, I want to study the another realm of lives and possibilities that are happening in simultaneously i.e. the bizarre roots that is contributing to make the entire forest ecosystem to be able to thrive and form a combined intricate network of fine and coarse roots that holds the forests together and the factors that drive the root growth and root system expansion, the organisms that live there, the co-existence between them, the morphological & physiological responses to their immediate environment.