Humans have an innate idiosyncratic way of perceiving the space around them. On-going research in the field of neuroscience has proven that the space around us changes us as much as our brains factor in the perception of space around us. This is true on a local as well as a global sense. Micro-spaces like our room, our workstation and macro-spaces like our city, the railway station both contribute in the mental image of how we sense our space.

 

These cues may not necessarily be visual but can be auditory and olfactory as well. If one notices carefully, various forms, aromas and sounds emerge in the cacophony of stimuli that a place offers. This statement becomes truer in the case of a large area. Our elective, Narratives of a Place: Bridging the future + Past, was about exploring and cataloguing these ‘mental relics’ in the boundaries of the city of Ahmedabad.

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During the field visit to area in near Sardar Patel Bridge on Old Ahmedabad side I kept hearing sounds of different activities. With the small localities sounds differed as certain activities were common in those areas.  Along with other material artifacts I kept recording sounds. Later I chose the sound a primary artifact and made this documentary video as a different approach to narrate the older side of the Ahmedabad. This video acted as a common link between all the four groups in the exhibition.