Despite All Odds

An oyster is sitting on a notebook that has opened up and disintegrated into a multiplicity of pieces. This fragmentation imposes on the piece a sense of chaos, and yet the structural quality of the composition brings back a sense of order. The play with the architecture, with its hollows and volumes, in fact, establishes a firmness to the piece beyond this multiplicity.

Symbolically, the artist has shown here the story of Kannagi, where the diversity of its inhabitants, all coming from different areas of the city and with different backgrounds, is resolved in a strong sense of connection to this new settlement.

It is the representation of how from chaos even a pearl - such a precious thing - can come out.

Also, the plant is another metaphor for this concept that reflects on how life in general works. Furthermore, how life, even with its shadows, is always stronger than anything, so is the plant, fragile and yet present also within a concrete wall.

"Despite all odds" thus becomes a reminder of how new stories always grow in mysterious ways, despite the most dramatic reasons that could be behind them.