Once I thought I could go quiety as a star

Neha Choksi, artist

born 1973

Once I thought I could go quiety as a star, 2011

Where object was made: Mumbai, India

Material/technique: burnt archival digital print; gold leaf

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 25 x 34 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 13/16 x 13 3/8 in

Credit line: Courtesy of the artist and Project 88, Mumbai, India

Accession number: EL2016.024

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The sun is a body.
The sun is always photographed from the Hindu crematorium on the southern tip of Bombay, where we learn the body is perishable.
The sun is my metronome.
The sun is your body.
The sun is perishable.
—Neha Choksi
These photographs explore time through the movement and natural power of the sun—an eternal marker of existence. Each photograph was burned with magnified solar rays and represents how a photograph of the sun—captured in an instant—clashes with the reality of the massive celestial body. Choksi says these works have a “palpable tension between the duration of the sunset and the duration of the burn.”