Perpetuity of the ephemeral

The first issue of our magazine talks about ‘standpoint’. At the outset, let us understand “What is standpoint?” The dictionary meaning of ‘Stand Point’ is “the position / stance one takes on an issue”, “One’s viewpoint / perspective in respect of an issue”. Change is inevitable and, probably, the only thing that is constant. Everything around us is constantly evolving and constantly changing. It is a quality that induces, stimulates dynamism in our lives. However, on close examination, it would be observed that there are certain inanimate objects and activities, hiding under the cloak of mundaneness, which have least been effected by the winds of change. It would not be wrong to say that everything around us over a period of time builds for itself a nostalgic value or what may be seen as embodied memory. With time and sometimes even by the sheer fact of prolonged existence we tend to develop a certain kind of association with everything around us and we relive the same when we revisit the seemingly mundane object or events, thus making them special again. The following photo essay attempts to examine and understand the standpoint of ‘the mundane’ and what makes them timeless or excludes them from ephemerality of materiality.