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Material explorations & participatory installation · 2024

Impressions of Care

Experiments in cyanotype, paper and memory. A shared installation of folded boats. A few things that stayed with us.

01 / Explorations

First impressions.

Flowers, found forms and portraits became starting points for cyanotypes.

A hand holds a translucent sheet with the impression of a pale flower and yellow pollen.
Leaves and petals arranged on circular forms beneath glass, casting shadows in sunlight.
A translucent green leaf carries a faint photographic portrait against a white background.
A portrait held in a leaf.
Students gather around a long table covered with cyanotype prints of photographs and plants.
Cyanotype prints of portraits, plants and abstract forms pinned in a loose arrangement on a fabric wall.
Early cyanotypes, pinned up together.
02 / Preparation

From sheets to space.

Cyanotype sheets, many folds, and the work of putting it all together.

Rows of large dark patterned sheets laid along a sunny lawn.
Cyanotype sheets exposing in the sun.
A crumpled pale-blue sheet rests on grass, held in place with stones.
A long row of patterned cyanotype sheets laid out beside a window.
Cyanotypes lined up, before they became boats.
Cyanotype sheets combine floral, geometric and circular patterns.
Rows of colourful paper clips arranged on a cardboard sheet.Rows of white-painted paper clips on a pale board.
BeforeAfter painting
Made by hand

One fold.
One thread.
One boat at a time.

Team members work together to hang blue paper boats from fine threads.
03 / Installation

Kaagaz Ki Kashti.

Paper boats carry patterns, memories and an invitation: fold one, and let it sail.

A cloud of blue and white paper boats hangs in a campus passage above a shallow basin lined with patterned blue material and stones.
Two blue printed panels hang above a table with patterned paper and folded boats, inviting visitors to participate.
For the visitor

A story to read.
A boat to make.

Kaagaz Ki Kashti exhibit panel describing paper boats as carriers of India's textile traditions, memory and cultural exchange.
A bilingual paper-boat guide with illustrated folding steps and the words Your paper boat is ready to sail.
A small blue patterned paper boat floats on water, seen at the level of the surface.
04 / Feedback & team

What came back.

Notes, conversations and a record of making something together.

Documentation of visitor feedback, a Times of India clipping dated 23 December 2024, and messages of encouragement over a photograph of the boat installation.
Visitor notes, a Times of India mention and words of encouragement.
Five team members sit together in front of the finished blue paper-boat installation.
A collective effort

Made together.

Kaagaz Ki Kashti
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad