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UG - BID - Studio - 4 | Spring 2022 | The Moral Demon
  • Student Shah Kashvi Dr Kalpeshbhai
  • Code UIR20074
  • Faculty Design
  • Unit L2 Studio Unit
  • Tutor/s Jay Thakkar
  • TA Kamna Vyas

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We began our semester by understanding different perspectives to widen our imagination and break out of our own world. Then I fictionalised existing spaces from Wassily Kadinsky's viewpoint and style. After that I decoded the personality of a peer and tried to imagine spaces for my peer. This was the first step in creating fictional spaces. After gaining knowledge from these exercises we moved on to the final exercise where I developed my own narrative on Vibhishana and depending on that created my own character. After that developed spaces for this character.

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Above image depicts Storyboard of the movie Guardians of Galaxy Volume 1 and the collage shows various characteristics and traits of Vibhishana.
Library of the Wise: As Vibhishana is very fond of reading books, scriptures and other texts, a reading space in the futuristic context has been imagined in a spaceship. This space instead of having books, actually has digital screens and a server through which one can read any possible book. There also is a digital column which only appears when a secret message has to be delivered to him.
The Divine Room of a Demon : Being a part of demon clad, Vibhishana still possesses and follows Brahmin values like reading Vedas and growing and nurturing a Tulsi plant, meditating to Lord Vishnu and so on. It is imagined that these activities have been taking place in this bedroom in a futuristic outer space context. Along with that to show the secret spy side of Vibhishana, a digital portal has been shown which takes him to his secret room. This portal is only accessible by him and otherwise is invisible.
Decoding the Coder: Vibhishana is a coder in the year 3050, along with that he works as a secret spy. Hence a secret room has been imagined which is only accessible only to him, sitting where he can see who is in need of help and can help them. Being a coder himself his secret room is imagined to have been made of and seen only in binary digits. His entire computer setup is placed here.
The Invisible Help: Vibhishana has the powers to move around without being seen by others. He can walk around invisibly. Hence here he is shown moving in the spaceship invisibly which has been represented using binary digits. He through this power help everyone in need.
Here, by doing thorough research on one of my peers, Chinmayi, I tried to understand her personality which has many layers to it and represented key elements of her life in the visual style of graphic illustrator Ranganath Krishnamani.
Here, by understanding the style of Wassily Kadinsky, I have depicted and reimagined a Cept space in his style, inspired by his Composition 8 painting.
I saw and fictionalised the world around me from different perspectives of animals, fictional characters and mythological characters.