Neha Choksi's "Sky Fold" & "Iceboat" Reflect Melting Away of Self

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By TAHLIB
"Skyfold" by Neha Choksi (cyanograms)
INDIA---New Jersey-native Neha Choksi's "Sky Fold" is a series of photographic cyanograms made this year during the production of the video "Iceboat" in February 2012, as described in Mumbai Boss.  In Iceboat the artist sets herself to row a boat of ice until the boat melts and releases her into the waters. The ultimate melting and floundering is a real experience of loss made vivid in a staged and measured way. We know it will melt away; lighten and relieve in 'an affirmative act of destruction', and in gravity. Born in U.S., Ms. Choksi moved to Mumbai at the age of 4 but returned to attend the University of California, Los Angeles, as an undergraduate and later Columbia University in New York for a master’s degree.

Artist is dressed in pilgrim white in melting iceboat (2012 video)

Comments

Ice blue, my favorite color is Neha Choksi's medium for teaching us to "melt away"