Theme—THIRST
DYUTIMAN MUKHOPADHYAY PHOTOGRAPHY
Thirst
The fire rushes through the veins—
Only to find the heart is frozen.
—dyutiman mukhopadhyay.
Theme—THIRST.
January 1, 2003; Chunar Fort, Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, India; Camera—Canon FX 35 mm film SLR.
And lines not to cross before I sleep
Hope, despair and the yellow line. . .
[Courtesy: an enormous advertisement of Facebook inside a London Underground station.]
Theme—THIRST.
October 31, 2019; London, Underground Station; Camera—Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro.
I won’t forget you
‘Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.’
—Anne Frank.
Theme—THIRST.
November 12, 2019; London, Gordon Square; Camera—Samsung M30s.
Tear Torn Tossed Away
Fragments of a half-remembered dream.
Theme—THIRST.
December 3, 2019; London, Upton Park; Camera—Samsung M30s.
The burden of expectation
Inspired by the recurring motif of the Hessian sack in Bunuel’s cinematic masterpiece: That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).
Theme—THIRST.
November 9, 2019; London, Euston Square Underground; Camera—Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro.
sunnight
Theme—THIRST.
January 9, 2020;
London, University College London, Gordon Square;
Camera—Samsung M30s.
To give back the memories
Editing ‘Devdas’ to create a database of experimental stimuli to study cultural models of self and social appraisal through films.
‘Devdas‘ (2002); Dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
Title adapted from the scene: ‘Giving back the memories ’ (YouTube).
Screen scene: First meeting or clasping the bumblebee (YouTube).
Theme—THIRST.
December 13, 2018; London, University College London, PALS office; Camera—Samsung Galaxy Grand 2.
Like a moth to a flame / AKA—FORBIDDEN LOVER
Theme—THIRST.
February 24, 2021—Photomontage from picture taken on November 2, 2010, at Bhuri Singh Museum, Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, India, and on November 20, 2019 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (Pluto carrying off Proserpina, Camera—Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro).
Sleep! My crying poems!
Sleep! my crying poems—
Sleep! sleep for now!
Sleep! till the Moon calls you at dawn;
The Sun has long woken in the musk deer’s dream—
Myrrh and frankincense of innocence—yearn;
Oh! fear not—the tear of burning Sun!
Cold! ‘tis cold! and waiting to cry—
In dark-hued nocturne!
—dyutiman mukhopadhyay.
Theme—THIRST.
Sunset, Calcutta, India.
May 30, 2021.
Camera—Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro.
the eyes of the beholder
Theme—THIRST.
March 23, 2022.
West Bengal, India.
Camera—Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro.
work in progress
"The frost, sometimes it makes the blade stick."
Gladiator (2000); Dir. Ridley Scott.
Theme—THIRST.
January 23, 2023.
Bangalore, India.
Camera—Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro.
naïveté
“You study, you learn, but you guard the original naïveté. It has to be within you, as the desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.”
― Henri Matisse.
Theme—THIRST.
April 14, 2023.
Galibore Nature Reserve, Karnataka, India.
Artwork: Foliage, bird feather, and soil from grass with glue, ink, and watercolour on paper.
Photography: Camera—Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro.
Ariadne (a genus of nymphalid butterflies)
Ancient Cretan dialect:
ari (ἀρι-) "most" adnós (ἀδνός) "holy".
Theme—THIRST.
November 03, 2023.
Bangalore, India.
Camera—Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro.