WHEN TRAVEL MEETS ART
Written by Aditi Rao | Published by Harper Collins 2020
Who decides the path we choose? And how do we take more such journeys off the beaten path and draw on them to unfold newer worlds for the readers?
Candid Tales is a travelogue capturing biker Candida Louis’s travels across India. I shaped her free-spirited expeditions to various corners of the country (Himachal, Kashmir, Varanasi, Rajasthan, Kerala, Pondicherry) into layered pages with photos of the kindred souls she met on those trips, local food she ate, route maps she planned etc. Sundries and souvenirs of the trip were also added into these collaged pages to give us a glimpse of her nomadic life.
What drew me to her journey was the fact that as a traveling artist, I have seen and experienced many of these places, which made me more conscious of how her chronicles could be shaped visually. It was a wonderful combination of a woman biker, woman writer and woman artist collaborating.