Collaborative Projects

“what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it — a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.”
― Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium

Hargun Gujral and Koushik Saha‘s collaborative piece: Loss

Editor’s Note: Hargun had a few lines, coming out as stream of consciousness, for the idea of loss. She needed some anchor to just take them out. Koushik who is an artist used his brush to provide that anchor. Thus came into life this collaborative piece taking us through how one can navigate loss. Loss…

Douglas Colston and Koushik Saha‘s Collaborative piece

The writing part was done by Douglas Colston who was inspired by the old scriptures from Chinese, Old Norse and Latin civilisations. His text is somewhat an artistic blend of translation and interpretations. He calls his text as Organising and arranging – including spinning and weaving fabric or composing poetry – may be associated with…

Koushik Saha and Zai Gulmohar‘s collaborative piece: Raining Words

Editor’s Note: This collaboration has spontaneity written all over it. The image came from Koushik with a hope to find some words and DoubleSpeak reached out to Zai who readily accepted to compliment the image with a quick poem. The collaborators do not know each other but their works find a organic connection in this…

DS Maolalai and Gui Moraes‘s collaborative piece: Hum

Editor’s Note: The poem was submitted by Maolalai for consideration in the poem section and yet the need for the sharp edged images were felt to add more layers to the words. Maolalai’s friend Gui came forward to share his work and compliment the words. the city has a hum  like air conditioning in next…

Gemini Lovers‘ collaborative piece: A Hard Life

This is collaboration of what the two writers are seeing in the socio-economic scenario of their our country. Deeply affected by what they see around them, they decided to share their observations with a larger audience others. They have a simple logic for such a collaboration – they love writing and they are both poets…

Linda Crate and Kaushik Saha‘s Collaborative piece: With Nature’s Touch

Poet Linda Crate wrote a poem about nature. The poem could have been existing in its own strength and grace. But transparent water colours from Kaushik Saha promised to add another layer of meaning and interpretation. Linda is from Pennsylvania, USA and Kaushik is from Panagarh, India and yet their expressions found a confluence through…

Amy Bassin and Mark Blickley‘s collaborative piece: Recyclable Glass

My latest ekphrasis collaboration with fine arts photographer Amy Bassin, “Recyclable Glass,” was created a bit differently than our previous ones Usually, Amy shows me an image and if it speaks to me, I write a text-based on it. I wrote “Recyclable Class” in response to an ugly incident I recently witnessed on a New…