Our Lush River Green
A lulling Goan summer, an old river stream flowing by in quiet grace, dancing past plastic trash; two floors of a tawdry holiday home; flat reds, disheartened greens and stale browns; and two art-makers caught amidst this delicious incongruity.
This series of photographs holds within it an unspoken desire for the celebration of idleness, the almost-beautiful, the aspirational, and the all-tacky-all-glittery-all-gaudy bits of life that we rarely fetishize. The “Siolim Sisters”, as they call themselves in ode to the sweet old neighbourhood tucked somewhere in between crowded beaches and oily fish curry joints, celebrate the confines of their queer and charming abode. Posing only for each other, they embrace the oddities of this home, embodying its' awkwardness, trapped on a fake marble living room stage, they reinforce the mundane while dreaming of escaping it.
To see more of this photo series, write to us at siolimsisters@gmail.com