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

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

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

As Tranquil as Can Be lingers between the intervals of noise and speech. The canopy is an invitation to share a space of stillness or one that pulses before, after and in-between the rhythms of our breaths, heartbeats, and the circulation of blood. Here, time is neither halted nor hurried, it holds, almost as a companion to one’s being. The fabric traces the currents that can hang in the air like a question, freeze like a glacier of anger, or be a source of comfort and refuge. The work questions the breaking, entering and the being of silence through a corridor with invited works from artists.

It comes together with a canopy, a place to rest, share, linger and gather. Silence is like a bottomless ocean that absorbs all noise and still has lots of space and time leftover for any sound that the universe may still want to make. 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.

A place to rest, share, linger, and gather under this canopy, thinking through tranquility and what stirs or stays still as and when life begins and ends.