Project 88 presents, Where should the birds fly after the last sky? by artist Prajakta Potnis, It is a verse from Mahmoud Darwish’s poem – the earth is closing on us. Posed as a rhetorical question it implores one to imagine how it would pass for one to lose one’s home/land.
“As I paint with the blackest of black, I am thinking of something like the darkest night. A long restlessness, sleepless night, one in which you are living a nightmare. With eyes wide open we watch innocents buried under debris and the world continues on a voyage of its own extinction, while pleas for justice go unheard much like Anton Chekhov’s “The Lament”. The constellation of works is an attempt to draw a portrait of the present moment of anxiousness and uncertainty. Carved here are moments of pause and restlessness, of despair and dissent.”
