TIME REPEATS- Experiments with shadows continue in Chennai. I have been wanting to work on the topics which keeps repeating in the history. Chennai has a long history of water crisis. The city was not meant to the kind of metropolis it is today. On 19 June 2019, Chennai city officials declared "Day Zero", indicating that the water in the city had depleted, as the four main reservoirs supplying water had run dry. Twenty one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020, affecting around 100 million people, claims a report by NITI Ayog. The report also says that 40 per cent of India's population will have no access to drinking water by 2030. This mural appears like a problem, mimicking the crisis itself and appearing only as the sun goes up, to reveal the ramifications of this water shortage. The wait for the image acts as a metaphor for the wait for water in the city, but also for time itself - reappearing year after year. Done for @startindia Artist Assistant: @pritishsrinivasan Illustrator: @kshetrimayumjohnso Project manager: @thanishp Vikas Nagare Site Manager: @tanyamunjal Installation team: Sathish Kumar, Muruguan Gopi, Sakhtivel, Rajesh Kumar Helpers: Dj Arun, Deepak, Parasuraman, Shahjahan, Thangamani, Chela Kutty Production support: Deepak Kumar, Dinesh Kumar, Magan Sah, Rajan 🎥: @pranavgohill @jay_nu