New Delhi, The city of Djinns as William Dalrymple described it in the title of his book of the same name. Prior to the British there had been seven previous cities, seven incarnations of Delhi. Scattered across the expanse of today’s vast metropolis lie the ruined monuments, mosques, mausoleums of the ancient cities, witness to the sis and fall of past civilizations and empires. In the back ground of this sculpture imagery from the seven cities attest to the past conquerors and builders. The cities of Mehrauli, Siri, Tughlakabad, Firoz Shah Kotla, Jahanpanah, Dinpanah, Shahjananabad are bisected by the concentric circular form of the British empire’s imperial capital. In the very center is the former Viceroy’s house, designed by Lutyens and now the Indian Presidential house known as Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The imagery above the background in this work has been created by making an amalgamated template of al the clouds and storms that appear in Durer’s woodcuts. This template was then placed above combined prints of ‘The Age of Kali”, which have then been cut though and combined with the turbulent cloudscape.
