Film, Art & Design – Bharat Sarwaiya

This is a selection of written works dating from early 1997-2010. Most of the works were in conjunction with paintings/ drawings. A set of poems was also in a handmade journal, which was illustrated accordingly but it got lost during the years.

16 Apr 98 | Sundance

New boats are arriving at this water tank [old, wooden and rusting].
Someone tosses a coin but…
it disappears cleverly inside this room.
       He’s laughing with tears, servants, packets, joys of life.
This made everybody happy. So…
I need to leave now…
because other boats are arriving.

18 Dec 98 | A pearl; white sheet of paper with patches; runaway trains: An investigation

Look at this bleak mountain and taste its shadow falling over your hairy chest.
This is the white distemper wall,
you clean twice whenever your shadow stretch out as the sun sets.
This is the plastic bag sprinkler and your golden blue plants,
smelling of your girlfriend’s underarms.
      And this is the place, where you stand,
where the world exists.
                                   You are not what you seem.
You are not what you were.
Tell us every thing.
Tell every thing you know about.
Tell, finally, where were you last night.

2 Jan 99 | Fragments

Fragments [A] The road: my classroom’s toilet. 
          The war generals smile over your turning face.

Fragments [B]
Cat, swallowed the food [before leaving the cage open],
escaping from hungry stomach of this little boy.
A magnifying glass burned the skin of the sun…
             … Leaving it… to decay in my mothers lap.