Personal story discovering airport artworkfrom @anushcache

Themes

• Curiosity
• Discovery in the Everyday
• The Story Behind Art
• Mindfulness
• Travel

Techniques

• Visual Storytelling
• Text Overlay Narration
• Digital Research Documentation

Trends

• Personal Journey Documentation
• Educational Carousel

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my sign to start observing the ordinary more often 👁️👁️

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  I was bored at the BLR T2 airport and I saw.....

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  this giant mysterious artwork behind me

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  lowkey looks like a satellite

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  28°N, 77°E

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  it had shapes and coordinates— of what I had no idea

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  and a compass with an M instead of an N (north)?

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  morth?? 😭

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  let's investigate

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  the artist from a birds eye view hehe

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  turns out this is an artwork where the artist imagines what airports around the world would look like from a “bird’s eye view”

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  she took layouts of diff airports and made squiggly shapes of them

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  the coordinates are the locations of the airports

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  The terminal allows artists from all over the world to play a vital role in giving the place its own distinct identity. Yamini Telkar, head of the Art Programme at the Bengaluru International Airport, says, “We held an open call for art installations back in 2020. The exhibits vary across mediums, from digital works to wall art. Singapore sculptor Madhvi Subrahmanian, shares with us, “My wall installation showcases a bird’s eye view of airports from around the world with Terminal 2 in the middle of it. I wanted to show how airports look like creatures from above, and for passengers to have the feeling of wonder when they view it. It is a 40ft by 20ft wall art piece that features details like coordinates and tarmac lines using real tarmac from the runway.”

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  also found out the the artwork was installed in 2022 when T2 opened. all those years of travelling thru this airport and I never noticed it 😳

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  the canvas is tarmac from the actual runway, she mapped the layouts to look like little creatures— so many cool invisibly details abt the piece!

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  maybe like me, you fill every moment of boredom with content because sometimes it’s painfully boring. but this was my sign that there’s interesting things everywhere for those with the eyes to see 👀

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  amidst all this research, I still couldn’t find why this compass in the bottom was incorrectly labelled

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  and then it clicked to me and became so obvious... but I’ll leave that one to u to guess in the comments :P