#tastefordrowning

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Taste For Drowning /draʊn/ :die through submersion in and inhalation of water

I shot this fine art series in 2014. It encapsulates numerous motifs and themes such as death, society, self mutilation, perspective, etcetera. The visual goal was purposefully very different from the conceptual goal in order to establish an oxymoron and unmask the demeanour of society. Predominantly, the opus is about lily-livered human beings who use self-injury as a coping mechanism. These error-prone individuals don’t wish to sink and bury into the seabed; that’s suicide. Instead, they wish to have a morsel of punishment and only taste drowning. Traditions include flowers at funerals and on graves. Hindus unclothe the deceased and wrap the body in a white cloth. Hence, properties such as flowers and white fabric are in the thick of the picture’s composition. The use of a bathtub to illustrate the difference between suicide and self-harm and ink in water to denote stale and voided blood are examples of symbolism amidst the picture composition illustrating paradox and explaining abstractly the sentiment of eventual anhedonia.

Although Taste For Drowning has many prerequisite notions, if you're analysing the still image feel free to let it mean anything to you. Nonconformist or not, interpret independently. ♥

P.S. I opted to publish this series as my first on the blog as it is work from when I was much younger and it mirrors my POV as well as shortcomings as an amateur creator. I wanted to be truthful to whomsoever partakes in this spectacle by showing them how I started off as a fledgling with technical and theoretical disadvantages far from perfection and professionalism.

Model Khushboo Thakur Art Direction and Photography by Kriti Malik Assisted by Shreyasi Agrawal

(done for Visual Arts in the final year of International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme)

Love, कृति ♥️