A.J. Suri

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The duality I chose to explore: loneliness / love. I picked this duality because I wanted to show a piece of the
Country. I am from India. So I chose the Taj Mahal. Taj Mahal means “Crown palace”. I picked this duality because it has a beautiful story behind it. The loneliness is because the man who built it a Mugal Emperor Shah Jahan. The small house as the loneliness repusents Shah before he fell in love. Then I picked love because he loved this woman Mumtaz Mahal, a Persian Princesses so much, that he promised her four things: one, that he would build the Taj Mahal, second he shall marry her, third he would be nice to all her kids, and fourth that he
would visit her tomb on her death anniversary. He had fulfilled the first two promises, but couldn’t finish the rest because he had sadly died. So the Taj Mahal is a big sign of Love. The symbols I had created and used in my animation were a sun, a small house forming into the Taj Mahal as a sign of the Loneliness to Love and also a sun to show how long the love lasted and how strong it was. I really had fun with this project, It was very interesting.