What morphing does?

What morphing by someone else does to you,is make you feel displaced. You are so accustomed to furniture being in the designated space,that moving it,makes you uncomfortable.
You know where the medicines are-I kept them in the cabinet...so you go to the cabinet where you know it is!ITS NOT THERE!you have helped Jose to keep it some place else,so you have walk extra steps to go to it...and while walking you have frown and irritating thoughts-why is it here and not there!

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You organise your house as per your own convenience.You get used to your furniture being in a certain space.You know it will be there,every time you go there.It gives you a sense of stability.
And then morphing happens.You try and adjust to the changes-but it doesn't happen.So wait for the designated time,for the commitment,and as soon as it is over-the first thing you do?MOVE IT BACK!
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A house is constructed with furniture,but the energy is created/felt with the people visited....the fights...the promises...the conversations........the silences...the laughter....friends...helpers...lovers...

On 'morphing'

definitions of 'morphing' I found on the net

1)To be transformed
2)to transform or be transformed completely in appearance or character he morphed from nerd into pop icon
3)Short for metamorphosing, morphing refers to an animation technique in which one image is gradually turned into another. Many advanced animation programs support some type of morphing feature. 

morph

[mawrf] Show IPA

noun

1.

Linguistics . a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (  def 2 ) .

2.

Biology . an individual of one particular form, as a worker ant, in a species that occurs in two or more forms.

verb (used with object)

3.

to transform (an image) by computer.

verb (used without object)

4.

to be transformed: morphing from a tough negotiator to Mr. Friendly.

Origin:
1945–50;  back formation from morpheme, or independent use of -morph

Morphing means changing form or shape. (verb)

1. An example of morphing is when a quiet little not-for-profit is changing into a huge charity.
2. An example of morphing is when a caterpillar is changing into a butterfly.

Morphing means the special-effects process in which someone or something change shape or form. (noun)

An example of morphing is when a car becomes a robot which becomes a creature.

 

 

Morphing IV(Sreejata's place)

another 'morphing' added



14.1.13

Wonder if Sreejita is writing anything!(in regard to the changes...she did promise) For sometime she had wanted to move that book cabinet from the drawing room. Together we moved it and it was quiet heavy. Meymon must have returned by now....want to  hear his reactions!

15.1.13
Notes by Sreejita

It was a good feeling altogether to get my drawing room bookshelf into the large bedroom, and the old TV above it removed. But it was not set properly after that, So the TV which was then kept in the bedroom bed, was posing a question 'what now'.

The idea of a friend coming to home and then owning the space was exciting. And all the more helpful because there has been many changes i have long desired and just because i was waiting for an outside force to act for me, i haven't done.

It was like art entering you rooms, with the colour of novelty to the everyday mechanical things...

yeh ghar bahut haseen hai....

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Morphing III(Jose's place)

Jose's place   5.1.13

with Ritesh

                                          Jose's place is full of tables and side tables!British,Chinese.....
we created a study/office for Billy and a guest room with T.V.
(I didn't feel like coming back...and missed Samudra's energy)

As I entered Jose's place,it was already in flux,I couldn't figure out where to start. So i just started shooting the entire place...and it seemed like an endless task. Don't know the area of the house,as every house/home I visit I compare it with the size of my own house(a 100 yard area).
Our school bus travels through Vasant Vihar everyday. Its a pleasure seeing the area...reminds me of my hometown-Chandigarh. Every house with windows in each room,a garden for the children to play in,a garden outside the boundary wall,a garage(a luxury now I feel) to park the car/s,trees outside the house.And I imagine living in one of these...but being inside Jose's place, the spaciousness is beyond me.Taking care of such a place is beyond my capacity-monetarily and physically.

13.1.13
Visited Jose's place yesterday.It looked so neat and tidy!and the morphed rooms looked fabulous !His house is so colourful...orange chinese cabinets,green dining table,a dark pink sofa,pink walls..and the lighting is perfect.

Morphing II(manmeet's place)

Jose 'morphing' Manmeet's house/home (4.1.13)

The 6'x4' diwan cum bed,moves out of the studio and into the drawing room.....it creates an unease....looking at the images,it looks like an innocent piece of furniture...but I know what memories it carries....



BEFORE AND AFTER SHOTS

the studio gets space to work and the living room gets engulfed..

like a dog hears a sound even 10 meters away,the mother hears a mere sigh of a sleeping child...Brishti wakes up and my thoughts are lost....I no more cry at night these days...try and absorb the space around me...changing furnitures with clusters of clutter,chosen to forget at intervals...making the house alive with their chaos...the will to not touch them for now..another task for an empty day....(12:24 a.m)

8.1.13

The shoe rack moves inside the washroom...I don't like it there,but it seems the apt place for it.It was earlier next to my computer/working table and sometimes the shoes came onto it...that ways its still better.Jose kept Brishti's study table there(next to mine). She still is not fond of it,though when I had bought it she was very excited.It is pink,her favourite colour that time,now it is red,her favourite colour.

It spoils the orderliness of the washroom,where everything else is in it right place,nothing is jutting out or obstructing anything. The door doesn't open completely now,but there is no where else to keep it. Its like an irritant. Maybe I should paint it!

9.1.13
Kohinoor took a leave today.She cooks for me and tidies my house abit. I didn't touch the house. Its cluttered as cluttered can be. The house becomes me today...disarranged...displaced...blurred...clothes mixing into each other...shoes all around...
Somehow I can never find the right place to put things.But its functional. The clothes are clean and dried up,which is important,the overhead tank is full,which is important,Brishti had her dinner,which is important,the heater is repaired,Brishti slept on time,I went to school,got the petrol filled,paid the electricity bill....all functional.
Yet something is missing....will cleanliness restore it?what is needed to fill these gaps?gaps of emptiness...gaps of sighs...gaps of silence...

gaps...

13.1.13

Happy Lohri!
Tomorrow the morphing completes 10 days.So as per our project guidelines,one is free to undo the changes made.
The chest of drawers which Jose moved in the studio is better functional in the living room...the diwan is irritating me...it gives more space to clutter..but i don't want to move it back in the studio,i like the studio like this...the diwan if it moves from the drawing room,is surely going out of the house...

14.1.13
I was not sure what Brishti's reaction would have been-moving the diwan in the drawing room.She loved playing in the open space. But she was so cool about it. She asked why Jose did that. And two days back we had done the same to Samudra's place,so it was easy telling her. And she understood. Children I believe get adjusted more quickly,or rather they use the space for as per their own convenience.She now sits on it and plays with her toys. But I'm sure,she will enjoy the space once the diwan is out.

16.1.13
I moved back the drawer cabinet back into the drawing/dining area. Suddenly it felt so good.
It looks perfect there and is utilized more. I feel so satisfied,just moving a piece of furniture!

Brishti tries to stop me from shooting!

The empty space after the cabinet moves out...the studio feels so light.

and it gets filled up again!

Clutter-some more before and after shots

Morphing I(Samudra's place)

31.12.12
a good day to start-the new year eve....

I am greeted by this:

I'm happy that my beloved is coming today !



A perfect/imperfect bachelor's home-

painted walls,puppets,handicrafts....clutter lying comfortably....

8.1.13

Samudra's friend...
forgot her name...she would never go away,stood there all the time...was sort of rude,not talking,not replying to any conversation....
lost in her own thoughts...observing all that was going on...she's on the phone all the time...

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For an 80 yard house,Samudra's place is well designed. There are shafts for cross ventelation,two washrooms,a decent kitchen,and two bedrooms.Its perfect for an artist. A room to work and a room to live in.Though the studio is used mostly for storage.
The bedroom has sunlight coming in-the best part. A huge window and an attached balcony -the only one in fact.You can see the sky.....Samudra works in this room mostly.
He is a workaholic.Even while the morphing was going on,he recorded a song! Pankaj,his friend, also came by to help. Pankaj and I were in the kitchen,Brishti playing in the bed,with Samudra working on the computer.With Brishti inside,he shut the door and instructed everyone to be quiet so that he could record his voice.
Great I thought!Recording sound with a four year old sitting next to him.And then it happened.Two lines of the song and Brishti spoke-ab bas bhi karo!It took exactly 4 minutes for her patience to give way!And Pankaj and I burst out laughing.
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It was the best new year eve.We even went for the event-Claim the street(PVR Anupam).But by the time we reached,the crowd we expected was not there. There were youngsters on the road,hooting,hanging around. There was a police gypsy van.We had taken our spray cans and were waiting for the police to move away.About 10 minutes later,they pushed a drunk teenager inside the gypsy and drove away.
And....

13.1.13
Waiting to visit Samudra's place.I gifted him a chilly plant..wonder how it is doing?