The street: Hundreds of colors, women dressed in white, red, blue, green, purple, red hairs in henna. People are walking all at the same time in the same space in between the cars.
March 4: Mapping the section
A curious child is looking at me. He is standing half of his body behind the door in which in front there is some kind of food drying in the sun.
March 5
Reality Tour, no cameras allowed, quick, very quick drawings:
At first I thought that is a way to make the slum a touristic theme. I still think that, however it indeed showed very interesting things, some of them is how organized is Dharavi. It is divided in zones with a clear division of the use of space, establishing zones for industry and living. I found amazing the thing that there is a School where half of the plot is occupied by it and the other half is a garbage deposit.
March 6: Map production
First day of production of the maps, everyone is busy; the hotel became a workshop where all of us are trying to create the maps. Also we had an invitation to a religious celebration where people offer small sacrifices in forms of flowers in the presence of the priest who is singing and praying.
March 7: JJ School
We went to JJ School to a conference in the morning, during the afternoon we worked on the maps with the Indian students in the workshops of the Faculty. There was something missing in our map and it was a drawing made by Ved (our Indian group mate). After the work was done I started to enjoy the light that can only be achieved with a camera in a tropic country. To do this i counted with the help of my groupmate who acceded to be the objective of my shoots.
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