MY OWN LELA
A collection of 25 artworks depicting the illustrated, esoteric and intricate world of Mukund Iyer
Mukund Iyer is a Bio- architect and a Social artist.
He believes that formal education taught him everything that he is not supposed to do in life. For this reason he developed and started to use play as a medium to heal and educate. His learning comes from travelling and from different cultures and mythological stories.
He is the creator of SOCHALAYA and co-founder of architectural nomad community OBARUHU.
Soch means thought, alaya means abode, so an abode of thoughts. Sochalaya also stands for toilet, another place where ideas and thoughts are born!
Through these he intends on bridging the gap between art, psychology and architecture via community participatory methodologies.
MEET THE YELLOW MEN
My Own Lela is a collection of artworks by Mukund Iyer through his many travels and experiences around the world. With simple line drawings, he creates an intricate world of many different layers in each artwork.
The little yellow men, his companions on his travels were born out of desire to exist fully in the little joys of every moment.
As little as they are, they make life worth it, they are the god of small things, the joy that exists in every moment, carriers of luminance, playful and carefree. They are genderless beings morphing into our days and nights to make it surreal.
Their existence is a divine play, their only purpose is to gather and spread joy by being their authentic nonsensical self. Over the years i’ve documented them as they traversed through multiple emotions and pious locations around the world.
A lot of his work is multi-dimensional and a visual play of colours and lines.