Anchor: The Game of Mind

Everything is in mind – dreams, hopes, desires, love, frustration. It’s the realm of emotions. The mind thinks, explores, imagines, and sets determinations, leads to ideas, develops insights, gives strengths to grow up, sees big, inspires to work, and then rest follows. That’s how if I put it in a very simplistic way. But the reality is a little more complicated. Life is not so simple, and neither is the mind. It’s a complex labyrinth of neuro wires that stores all, in fact, the whole meaning of life. The anchor project explores the same expression with the domestic birds.

As we grow up, we set goals for life, set milestones, based on some reference points, past experiences, dreams that we see over the years, desires that nourished at the core of the heart. Once we achieve or fail, we set another one. Sometimes, we stick to one for some time, and eventually, we move on, that’s how it goes.

In reality, the desires, goals, dreams, hopes don’t hold up always. The world within the mind that we create over the years starts getting decay slowly. Dreams and hopes suffocated within the boundary. It’s like slowly letting go of what we have nourished over the years. And all these happen within the mind.

The mind gets anchored with reality, with the current state of affairs. Dreams find a limitation – it dares to go beyond a certain point. Like domestic birds, they can fly but they can’t fly too high and far away. They had to come back to their old same place for livelihood. Even though they are not caged, but the world for them is not big either.

EKPHRASIS: Lightscribers Annual Exhibition on Photography & Poetry

Recently I have exhibited a few images from this series with a small group of photographers in an exhibition named “EKPHRASIS – Lightscribers Annual Exhibition on Photography & Poetry” at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata from 20th -27th October 2017. It was a visual collaboration of images and poems. We had great success, appreciated by the visitors and senior photographers from Kolkata.

We collaborated with poet Mr. Supriyo Phani and Mr. Jayanta Joy Chattopadhyay, and they wrote some nice pieces for this photo story. We received a huge appreciation for the evocative lines. It touched my heart.

“আকাশেরও সীমানা রয়েছে ডানার পালকও ভারী হয় ঘুরে ফিরে আবার তখন ঘরে ফিরে যাবার সময় –”

সুপ্রিয় ফণী

These images go good with Ludovico Einaudi’s musical piece “Orbits”, from his In a Time Lapse album. Here is the link from YouTube – https://youtu.be/8103KzF-VxA.

Some images and posters from our exhibition – EKPHRASIS – Lightscribers Annual Exhibition on Photography & Poetry.

Exhibition posters.

Poems that accompanied the images…

Here is one blog post on the exhibition. I have shared my experience in organizing an exhibition.

A Note on Anchoring

Anchoring is a neuro-linguistic programming term for the process by which memory recall, state change, or other responses become associated with (anchored to) some stimulus, in such a way that perception of the stimulus (the anchor) leads by reflex to the anchored response occurring. The stimulus may be quite neutral or even out of conscious awareness, and the response may be either positive or negative. They are capable of being formed and reinforced by repeated stimuli, and thus are analogous to classical conditioning.

You will get a lot more details about anchoring if interested here- https://www.nlpworld.co.uk/nlp-glossary/a/anchoring/.