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In schools of rural India, slates are used as notebooks that have a blackboard surface which can be reused. These slates were on what we would learn how to read and write and make mistakes and rectify them. It is difficult to be able to get a decent education in a place, where education is deemed down as a means of better income. To go to a good school and college has been one of the greatest challenges in my life. In my work I replaced the blackboard with different metal sheets I gathered from around the city. These plates yet again speak of time and degeneration and transformation. The slate here carries a sense of a journey and what we understand by time' when we look at the tattered plates. The slate frames become a window to observe the tol- erance of something that accepts all change around it, without responding.