Prachal Ghosh

LA4015-2

Humans have this incredible quality to imagine things. We imagine things and the formed image gets crystallized in our minds. It is that image which the mind constructs picking up the elements that strikes the most to our hearts and minds. And then there are these wonderful story-tellers who have created an imagined world for us in the form of stories. ‘Forests’ existed in these stories since the very beginning. We have grown up and evolved with these stories about forests. We shared that association to the forest through these stories which we now see in the form of myths, inscriptions, reliefs, murals, paintings etc. This project seeks to explore how the myths of the forest can be translated into a spatial experience, where the site becomes an experimental ground. Through this experience, mind and nature converge, allowing one to pause, reflect, and engage with the forest’s dimensions. Experiencing the continuity of the forest through series of gestures wherein, one pauses, wonders and introspects the surrounding dimensions. The objective is to rekindle our innate connection to the forest, tapping into its mythic memory that exists within each of us, and posing the question: Can the forest itself become a storyteller, narrating its myths to those who experience it?