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© Shruti Ramlingaiah / 2024 From Through a Hollow Sky and on Open Lines

chilled blue sky and a sun

To know what is real in a city so lit, grids of light demarcate deep dark nights in a view from a landing flight, and the gleaming sun through the day demarcates processes of my brain to fragments. Sitting inside a room, the glass pan window opens to another’s glass shield on the other side. From this high floor, everything and everyone seems to have emptied out. shivering me, frozen toe bones, blanket clad staring out to reflected light, my eyes skim a sharp shadow that speaks of a presence, a solid and concrete. Instantly reminds me of Mohammed Kazem’s clean, sequential triangles plucked on a clean slate of white paper I saw a few days back in a gallery: utterly held light, glowing and supported by shadow. Much of what is the case in Abu Dhabi, walking down the street or looking out of the window appears slate full of sharp cuts on the exteriors while the interior’s carved absent. The other day we discussed how the city has risen in height, coz everything above eye level is attempted by us. The flattening of ground and beneath it gets surpassed for it never holds light; wherein sunsets are an orange tinge of melting gold, gilding building edges. What I captured on my phone, are many others like- pink, purple and scarlet washed on a chilled blue sky - while riding on a bus at around six:PM.

Through a Hollow Sky and on Open Lines is a poetry and photography collection published here as a single-text, created during the RIZQ Art initiative's RAi residency and as part of a field note and adjacent research reflections between memory, cities and ecology in Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2024. These were displayed as visual-prose (alongside three wonderful artists/cohorts) at the Open Studio @MAKEStudios in December as part of this residency.

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