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Thursday, January 20, 2005
Petrified lovers
Priyadarshini Park is full of young lovers trying to steal a kiss. Half of their attention is on their romantic activities and the other half on scanning the surroundings for a neighbour who might report them to their parents. They are petrified. And so are the terracotta sculptures, which are fired at high temparatures.
From the note explaining the concept behind "Petrified Lovers", installation art by Dr Subodh Kerkar at Priyadarshini Park in Mumbai. If you're around there somewhere, go one evening and check it out, it's quite wonderful.
And while you're at it, you'll surely notice many lovers, most not appearing quite that petrified, making out all over the park. "Like everything else in Mumbai," Dr Kerkar told me, "they come in three shifts. The first shift gets here at 5.30 in the morning."
