Gaj-Yatra

Gaj Yatra

Project-    Gaj Yatra
Topology- Public Exhibition
Client-   Wildlife Trust of India.
Location-      Matighar, IGNCA, Delhi.
Year-         2018
Area- 60,000 sft

The Gajyatra was formally launched with the unveiling of an elephant themed art installation, The gajyatra was the biggest event ever planned around india’s wild elephant’s. Displayed at Mati ghar, IGNCA, Delhi sprawling from indoors to outdoors.

It took the form of a roadshow and moved through 12 elephant range states over the period of 15 months, with elephant sized artwroks created by local artists and craftmen as the centrepiece.

This efforts then is by no means comprehensive and cannot lay claim to consolidate the many areas that landscape designers and garden lovers have perhaps forgotten, could invest time in exploring, and from the many lenses presented, develop a deeper appreciation of this discipline and perhaps find its generative center, and from the position reimagine a path that could reconstruct the meaning of this discipline in what is a world that sorely needs it to express itself in its fullest.