dream within a dream - face

The day creeps towards its end. My muted affair with her approaches closure. It's been six hours of lurking behind the shadows with my contraption. She asks me to step forward with her eyes. My knees are making a racket. She smiles at me and says something. I cannot understand her. I try to read her lips.

I give up mid-way.

Anita by Phish. The Piramyd Shoot, Mazda Studio, Bombay. In September.

dream within a dream - wonderland

Somewhere over the rainbow,
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Dreams really do come true.

Packaged with glitter. With a logo on the bottom right hand corner (er..could you please make it bigger?).

Phish exposes Anita's mind. Behind the scenes at The Piramyd Shoot, Mazda Studio, Bombay. September, this year.

dream within a dream - the voyuer

It started innocently enough. Predictably. The frenzied and often whimsical dreams factory was hard at work. The well-oiled machines pointed and waiting. Ready to capture that perfect emotion. The emotion that will pierce your psyche and possibly torment you for three and a half minutes next Tuesday.

But in all the activity they missed a thing or two. Brought to you by the other guy with the camera.

Anita's Feet by Phish. Behind the scenes at The Piramyd Shoot, Mazda Studio, Bombay. Sometime in September, Bloody September.

in a devil mood

As the frantic millions pass along the idol, heads hung with habit or perhaps shame, the stench of new clothes and sweat thickens the air. And I cannot help but detect a trace of something else.

An unmistakeable smell of fear.

'Mahisasura' or 'The Buffalo Devil' at Ballygunge Cultural, Calcutta. Mahasaptami.
Photo by Phish.

calcutta; a moment in dusk

I was trying to think of something to say to her. Fumbling for a light at the same time. Round and round my room in half-hearted irritation. Then I found myself near the window. And as I looked up with a dangling cigarette (now lit), my world changed a little.

I look at skies a lot (see: bombay blue). It somehow makes you feel insignificant. In a nice, pleasing sort of a way.

Photos by Phish. October sky, Calcutta.