Lekha Washington

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Lekha Washington 30 The actor-singer-artist debuted at the India Art Fair with a candlestick telephone fused to a seashell receiver. Photograph by Chandradeeep Kumar, Picture courtesy: India Today

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India Today

Georgina Maddox

February 5, 2015

An actor and designer, was until now known for a massive red dot chair on which Deepika Padukone was seated. Washington showed a different sensibility at the Delhi Art Fair, 2015 where she fused an antique candlestick telephone with a huge seashell as the receiver. When you picked it up, you could listen to whispers and sounds from a recording that Washington had made. If one listened a little carefully, some of life's secrets and humorous profanities would be revealed. "In this melee of larger-thanlife works, I intentionally chose a quieter and more intimate art work," says Washington, whose shell was eagerly picked up by many and pressed to the ear for some me-time with whispers.