As Tranquil As Can Be
Shown at: ‘Serendipity Arts Festival’, Old GMC Complex, Goa, 2025

Acrylic canopy, Fabric, Vinyl, Blackboard with invited works by artists

As Tranquil As Can Be is an installation centred on silence as a shared condition. Presented as a canopy and corridor, it creates a space for pausing, gathering, and inhabiting moments that exist before, after, and between speech.

The work unfolds through fabric, light, and suspended forms that trace the presence of silence as something that moves through everyday life. This work is an invitation to touch that ocean’s shoreline, to step into its substance, to share some time, before, after and between the intervals of noise and speech, to be in silence, with each other, for a while.

At the heart of the installation is a corridor of works contributed through an open call that brought together 120 artists. Responding to the theme of silence, these works offer distinct reflections on what silence can contain, evoke, or conceal. Gathered within a shared space, they form a collective meditation on stillness and the many ways in which silence is experienced and imagined.

The canopy offers a place to rest, linger, and spend time with these reflections. As Tranquil As Can Be is an invitation to approach silence as something that accompanies life itself. It is a place to rest, share, linger, and gather under this canopy, thinking through tranquillity and what stirs or stays still as and when life begins and ends.  

Silence is what stays, and comes before the beginning and the end.