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I am trying to work with spectroscopy and the statistical manipulation of spectral data. I am working with Prof Ram Ramaswamy and his doctoral student Vikram Singh at the School of Physical Sciences in JNU. Presently I am trying to explore the various ways a given data set can be perturbed and the effects this has on the divergence of the resultant data set. It has been really interesting to converse and exchange ideas with Ram.One of the images, which I have uploaded here, is the view from my studio at KHOJ. The studio window overlooks a wall draped in a green
creeper. I often watch the changing patterns of light and shadow on this variegated surface. However, within this shifting texture of light, what is really interesting is a faint, illuminated rectangle that becomes most prominent around late morning and early afternoon.

In an earlier residency, the artist Asim Waqif had installed mirrors all around the KHOJ studios, quite a few of them in the most unlikely of places, part of an interesting installation. Some of them have survived. That illuminated rectangle is nothing but the light reflecting off one of them – installed on the edge of the roof and directed towards the facing, creeper laden wall.

Between rendering files and mulling over intensity and wave numbers,it has been quite an interesting experience trying to track this rectangle through the day. It also reminds me of the heliostat – a simple device that reflects an unvarying beam of sunlight through the day by synchronising its movable mirror to the movement of the sun across the sky – that was used by C.V Raman for his experiments with light scattering. _ Abhishek Hazra