Cross section of a strawberry rimmed mind: Original Art and poetry by Nirali Lal
Cross section of a strawberry rimmed mind. Size: A3. Water colour on archival paper. 2022. By: Nirali Lal.
‘A vortex of sorts / Into fragrant playful striped balls / Bouncing upbeat, / Just for the self, a favour’,
Intellectualising Emotions:
Flowery floats, strawberry hearts
Fleeting, buoyant, cloud tarts
So much depth but rising,
Moving away from its beating red—start
Entering deep
Making a strawberry rimmed mind pit
In floral symmetry
Interrogated, dissected,
cut into slits…
Swaying, dancing, floating
Pushed to its pit
Synchronised dreams
And thinking stories
Clouds and berries
Rolled together in fervour
Deep below the minds block
A vortex of sorts
Into fragrant playful striped balls
Bouncing upbeat,
Just for the self, a favour,
To play around
with a strawberry flavour
Till all the gas is released
Whew! exhausted they scream
And thick ball-skin settle,
remain,
weighty and drained
Vanishing into…
the mind’s membrane
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Nirali Lal is an artist and writer based in Baroda/Bangalore. She previously worked with Saffron Art as a Bangalore representative and as the Art Manager for The Artist Pension Trust in India. Her recent projects include Five Million Incidents (Goethe Institut, New Delhi in collaboration with RAQS Media Collective, 2020), The Nest (Anant Art, New Delhi in 2021, Space Alumni show, Space Studio, Vadodara 2020) and the Baroda March (Rukshaan Arts 2021-2022). You can find her on Twitter: @nirali_lal and Instagram: @niwawi_wow.
