Home is where the Art is

Jyothy Karat

Jyothy Karat is a filmmaker and photographer based out of Bangalore. She’s an ardent collector of conversations and all things magical.

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“This is the first time in nearly 10 years that I’ve been forced to stay put in Bangalore for more than a month at a stretch. For a person used to living out of a suitcase, the current pandemic has meant going cold turkey. So I turned to art for solace and have discovered how we all need art in our lives to find beauty in the mundane. In pre-COVID times, I used to keep a travel sketch-book, to help me look more carefully at and fall in love with every detail of a place I visited or person I met. Today, those sketches have become beautiful memories that I can live and relive from the comfort of an armchair at home.”

Ladakh

I don’t know anyone who has travelled to Ladakh and not come back with beautiful, indelible memories of their trip. I’m very certain that a lot of it has to do with the warm, friendly nature of its people. My friends and I had travelled to Ladakh early this year during winter, a month before the