What does an artist do during a lockdown? Rohit Chawla looks for answers as he responds to visual stimuli within the confines of his home during the Janata curfew As a photographer, used to finding subjects in an external environment, the forced isolation in the time of Covid-19, starting with the Janata curfew on 22 March, has had its share of revelations for Rohit Chawla. “There is now a heightened sense of visual stimuli and one is beginning to notice form and design in the sheer randomness of the mundane within my Goan home," he says.
With Chawla’s major retrospective, spanning 10 galleries at the Bikaner House in Delhi, postponed, he started photographing still life in his house—with subjects ranging from his pets and family to the