Repository (for One Two)

One day installation in the abandoned summerhouse at Dhoolie T.E. made during the Periferry1.0 International Artists' Residency, Guwahati, Assam. Bruce Allan revisited Dhoolie T.E. after an absence of 47 years. Repository (for One Two) celebrates the past through present circumstance, time's arrow dipped in paint. An arrow made at Dhoolie in the 1950s, used as a paint stick in England in the 1960s, brought back to hang in the summerhouse for a day. In childhood One Two and Bruce played together around the summerhouse. The summerhouse, sandpit and nullah was their domain. The small box with a green star was the sheriff's office. Joyram Turi made the arrow, a fort and many wonderful buildings. One Two died in 1969. The floor of Repository was made from casts of earthworms collected with the help of workers at Dhoolie T.E. In the context of the decaying and collapsed building the worm casts can be seen as a symbol of regeneration, a form of energy from the earth in which the earthworm is architect. The earthworm casts and rustic pillars of the building combined to make a unifying structure.