India Series

These prints reflect on my time in Jaipur, Agra, and New Delhi, India. These cities are beautiful places, full of incredible art, history, food, and music. Simultaneously, they force us, as comfortable Americans, to confront the negative aspects of society that we often push to the boundaries of our own cities and do our best to ignore completely during our vacations: poverty, overcrowding, and unsanitary conditions. But the beauty and elegance of these cities, as their centuries-old architecture blends with modern life and technology, is striking. The streets are filled with cars, bikes, cattle, motorcycles, trucks, dogs, pedestrians, goats, and elephants all moving together in a synchronized dance, communicated through car horns, hand signals, and shouts. To an outsider, it’s loud, pungent chaos, but it’s daily life and a fluent second-language of movement to the cities’ residents. As I walked the streets in each city, looking up, power lines seemed to come from every direction, floating whenever and wherever they pleased as residents plugged into the technology that we keep neatly contained here at home.