Cities on the flight path

What can bird skeletons, blueprints, glass and geometry tools tell us about how our cities are changing? Deepak Kumar shows us how to read between the skylines

- RICHA ARYA

I saw Deepak Kumar's Warning Line at the Indian Ceramics Triennale in 2023, where it immediately drew my attention, both for its scale and its theme.

The gigantic work depicts the fragile skeleton of a green pigeon. In it, ceramic pieces of various sizes are assembled together and used as the backdrop for drawings and paintings showing avian bone structures, tree roots, geometry tools, and the kind of blueprints commonly seen in urban planning.