India, March 21 -- It was at a residency in 2007, in Pittsburgh, USA, when contemporary artist Sudarshan Shetty realised how privileged he was to work from Mumbai. "Things come at you constantly here. You don't have to go looking for them," he says. The city's moods, colours, vibe, people, history, culture, food, emotions, hardships and challenges are fodder for creative minds, unlike in Pittsburgh, where Shetty had to find them. He would go to a mall and find just huge sections of sanitary ware and electrical machines and tools. "You have to go seek a catalogue there. Here (Mumbai), your catalogue just keeps getting thicker."

These visuals -- memories of Shetty's experiences of living in Mumbai -- are unloaded in his work, a 29-minute f...