AKIPRESS.COM - The format may have become digital now for many, but penning down experiences is an age old expression set in stone. It could be thoughts about a person, frustration at a situation, moments from travel, anything whatsoever. But the sacred premise is that it is a conversation between just you and your diary. Only for you to look back on and show to another person, only if you choose to.

However, a time may come when you neither want to look back nor have anything closely related to the phase in your life when you penned down experiences and emotions. The natural thought would be to use those diaries up as part of a bonfire on a cold night. Artist Pratibha Dakoji crumpled up hers into hundreds of little paper balls that will eventually resulted in an installation!

"I was clearing up the house and found close to 60 diaries I had written between 1996 - 2010. I find it all quite immaterial now", says 62 year old Pratibha "I thought I would tear out the pages and give them to the Kabari, (scrap collector) but while doing so and crumpling them, it struck me that I have been wanting to move on from watercolour painting and do something completely new. This was it." The pages contain reflections on the most ordinary moments, to a time when she and her husband Devraj Dakoji shut down their renowned printmaking studio in Delhi. But once crumpled up it would hardly matter, as all one will see of the writing is partial sentences in blue ink. She is working closely with one of her students on creating this installation that she hopes will be ready by October 2017. "I have applied for a space at the Kamala Nehru Auditorium at the India International Centre. Once I have the space, we will see how to place them. But we are working on various formats including partly digital. One is to have these crumpled paper balls jump up and down like thoughts in a busy head."

While Pratibha will share this with the world, the equation with the diary remains as tradition has it- no one will know what was written, Mojarto.com reports.