“At first, letters were cut in translucent paper, subsequently carved in wood and stone, gradually morphing to a linear alphabet and then to one retained by dots. So some variations of this script may look like cuneiform letters, some more like runes, and the one simplified to dots, looks like Braille,” says Legrand.

How: The exhibition acted as the starting point after which Legrand changed as an artist. Explaining its conception, he shares, “There was a deep spiritual experience where I saw both light and colour accompanied by music. This happened after a very difficult and painful experience in my life. I carried the memory of that experience for years, unable to translate in concrete form. This occurred in 1984.

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Exposition of the exhibition, The Light Matter, which transformed Anuradha Majumdar’s poetry into art. 

It was finally made possible with the invention of a script by cutting holes through translucent paper which could catch the light and also let it pass through.” The poems were translated in panels of paper, each measuring 8X6 feet. Legrand has been creating works on same terms of porosity, light, transparence and lightness ever since.

The artist says: “I assigned three numbers to each letter (between one and three), thus creating an algorithm which helped me colour different letters.”