Aashti Miller’s hands and clothes are covered with paint — shades of blue and specks of red, yellow and white. Standing next to her wall art on the premises of Vismaya Max, located in the heritage Keston House on Keston Road, she is busy posing for photographs with visitors and some of the artists who assisted her.
Architect-artist Aashti was on her first trip to Thiruvananthapuram to participate in the third edition of the wall festival organised by the Alliance Francaise in association with the French Embassy in India.
Measuring 10 feet by 16 feet, Aashti’s wall art, Vellam (water) is dominated by geometric shapes painted in shades of blue to “signify the relationship of the city and water”. It depicts the city’s urban layout and intricate network of waterways, captured in myriad shades of blue, which connect the city.
