Urmila has been focusing on the organic world of seeds, germination and the process of consumption in our times. “You are what you eat” and in today’s fast life the quality of food has definitely gone down. For instance, the levels of vitamins in today's fruit bear no resemblance to the levels found in fruit and vegetables that our parent had. Food seems to have lost its essence and does not taste the same. Organic food is known to contain 50% more nutrients, minerals and vitamins than produce that has been intensely farmed. In the rush to produce more and more crops to satisfy growing demand producers have had to resort to using a lethal cocktail of pesticides to control disease and insect attack. Unfortunately we need to eat more fruit and vegetables nowadays to make up the deficiency, but unfortunately that means eating more chemicals, more detrimental affects on your health eating something that should be good for us. Our eating habits have drastically changed and junk food has become part of out reality.
With the GM BRINJAL making the news, genetically modified crops that are modified in the laboratory using the latest molecular biology techniques. Urmila’s images do not illustrate these issues but construct a dialogue about the issues of food that are part of our daily life. Urmila focuses on the seed and the politics behind it propagation and migration in the world today. These seeds have the ability to store the essence and energy that sustains life and the livelihoods of farmers. The monochromatic graphic prints using MDF boards with the installation of stimulated food being part of the artist’s preoccupation.
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