Most of the cities in the world were born near water sources, and water is mostly sacred as the source of civilization.
Bangalore, today known as the sylicon valley of India due to the big IT industry, was founded at a place where no major river flood: the founders constructed artificial ponds and tanks which were used for drinking water supply, local production activities and religious rituals. As a consequence of further urban developments the hydrologycal system became a polluted or unhealthy ecosystem: most ponds in disuse were encroached and converted to residential colonies, wastelands, slums or breached under the malaria eradication programme. In the 1970s, a viaduct was built to supply water from the Cauvery river 100 km away.
Following an ancient map from 1870 as well as a opensource contemporary map developed in collaboration with a small IT agency, the projects is a visual mapping of what remains in those places which used to host water.
I localized and photographed those places and worked with local communities to collect iconographical material and emotional maps which were exposed with wallpapers as urban intervention and sent as postcards to various institutions linked to water management.