If walls were to speak, they would have a zillion tales to tell. For, as long as there have been walls, humans have tried to scribble their souls onto them – as art. You can see it etched into the 8000-year-old caves of Edakkal in the Western Ghats of Kerala, as well as in urban concrete jungles such as London – under the bridges, on the sides of alleys and on the walls of dilapidated housing projects.
Cave art from the Edakkal caves in Kerala (Image: Shrenik Rao/ 7MB)The stone age man in the Western Ghats of India, armed with stones, etched animals into the walls of caves; the modern millennial of London, armed with spray cans, follows in these footsteps – in much greater detail.
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