GREYING

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Album aim:

This was a photoshoot taken for our old age course.

The idea was to evoke nostalgia for an era long gone.

An era that contained so much simplicity, class and oppulence that today's shiny modern plasticity pales in comparison.

LISTEN

From the time we started discussing it, we wanted to create a very controversial sculpture

for the mere reason that any publicity is good publicity.

The sculptures' audience is ideally an elderly crowd. We discussed the yawni
ng gap between our two generations and the various differences in opinion it causes. So. We therefore created a hand coming out of the earth holding a signboard saying 'Listen'.
To mend broken ties. To empathise. Thats the entire point of our scupture.

Can I be like this at my old age?

Here I have combined the top(head) and the base(feet) which signifies a lot of things to me.

Firstly; at my old age I wanted to be like steam of my family's tree which combine the top and the base(like in a tree steam holds the root and the branches) to hold my family together.

Also I will be suppressed by the younger generation's thoughts as well as also pulled towards the older conservative thoughts, so I wanted to stay in the middle of the both to bridge the gap.

And also I have used my feet at the place of my hair, I wanted both my hair and my feet with me working properly at that age.

Funds for old Age

Number of old age homes in different states of India

ref. http://www.voice4india.org/2008/03/29/grants-funds-for-old-age-homes-in-india/

Statistics

Present Indian population of old age people:- 87.5million

Division in rural and urban population in ratio - rural- urban = 4:1

Population below poverty line- 30%

Illiterate- 70%(approx.)

According to the survey done by the help age India in 8 mostly populated cities of the country on the basis of old age people living in their own houses.