madhavan palanisamy 

madhavan palanisamy

postman and the octopus, 2023

photobook
Last year I created a story using Sid and my sister’s kid, Kim. They were born around the same time. And like many of my stories and the way I view life, they were celestial beings celebrating life on earth during this current time. I had imagined that they were connected before coming here. I had also put myself in the pictures because I was repeatedly visited by this image of a man with a beard and a bird on the top of his head.










When we were putting together images for a show, Radha (again) decides to take one of my earlier writings (2004) called ‘postman and the octopus’ and use it as the substance to explain the story and create this book as a project.

The postman is bringing the octopus, though time, to visit a fountain where there is a statue of a blue fairy. In a way it’s biographical and also spiritual. And a lot of fun.



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POSTMAN AND THE OCTOPUS
Self published
February 2023
10 x 14 cm
15 pages, 32 photographs
Photographs and text by Madhavan Palanisamy
Book concept and design by Radha Rathi Studio