A painting from 'A Forest of Remembrance'
Patil is a chronicler of life, or, seen another way, time. The subjects of his sculptures are workers at Mumbai's textile mills. They live in chawls, and toil all day to eke out a living. And Patil captures them in action, as layers of dust, fabric scraps and rubbish stick to them.
"I use performative body language. It represents the things that people in the area work with, and around. I wanted to show how the body is always moving. So many of these workers are actually from outside the region, and they take their stories wherever they go. That is the idea behind the cloud-like shape of the body", the artist explains.
