Dilip Tamuly

The?Ambhibian?? the uniquely designed bamboo raft conceived as part of the Cultural Re-imaginations project ? finally set sail last Sunday. Being part of the small team that had got together for the final journey, I would rate it as a journey of revelations. And why not? It was indeed a journey in the truest sense of the term ? a journey which introduced and reacquainted us with our environment and cultural heritage, helping us express our own personal journeys in life and also think about the manner in which they intersect with the larger picture.The final journey on the?Amphibian, which set sail from Uzanbazar ghat, was the second phase of the Cultural Re-imaginations project as conceived by US-based artist, architect Indrani Barua. In the first phase, she and her assembled team of artisans, writers, artists and creative professionals from various fields had got together with bamboo artisans and started the process of creating a new sustainable habitat that was to be the core of the entire open-ended project. Needless to say, the entire process was ambiguous as there was no final destination in mind yet there was a kind of symmetry in everybody?s functioning as they were all following the natural course of their environment.