This solo show at SOAS focuses on Singaporewala‘s explorations of the religion he was brought up in, Zoroastrianism.
In this post I look at his interpretation of the Ses, kept by the household for prayer and protection.
It consists of four items on a tray: the soparo (sugar container representing the alegorical Mount Hara), pigani (vermilion bowl for blessings), divo (oil lamp signifying sacred fire) and gulabdan (rosewater sprinkler symbolising hospitality).
The different ones here are all from the Singaporewala family, reducing in size over the decades.
He has played with scale In his reinterpretations, depicting the four elements both small
then massively large, as architectural monuments.
You may just be able to make out tiny figures within, specks of humans, giving an idea of their imagined size.
The meaning is the same.