You Look at Me Looking at You Looking at Me

Living and working for a month at the Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi, artist’s life was watched observed by group of resident monkeys. This paper is based on notes begun during that studio residency represents critical reflections emerging alongside hands-on sculptural practice. It illustrated with close-up photographs sculpture asks how encounters fabled animals densely populated 21st century urban areas can alter our understanding gaze as an inter-species gaze. The begin to ask broader questions, including provide different, perhaps more tacit empathetic, encounter other enable physical, mental or spiritual experience cultural entanglement between various onlookers? In far modelling other’s form embodiment mimicry? Do fast-changing camera angles soundtracks natural history programmes hinder empathic encounter? Or, does slow animation sculpted surface heighten sense being equally curious, cunning adaptable others such crows, foxes monkeys?