We’re all obsessed with moving forward. So obsessed, we don’t stop to think about the cost. And it’s not the money: that’s easy to calculate. It’s the human cost: you can’t see, can’t measure, like an invisible weight.

This is where art comes in. Trained architect Arzan Khambatta gets this. He knows art isn’t supposed to make you comfortable. It’s supposed to stop you. Make you think. Make you feel things you didn’t want to feel.

Drawing lines, thinking straight, building what people needed. But somewhere along the way, Arzan felt it wasn’t enough. He needed something more meaningful. So, he turned to something he had been fascinated with since his younger days – something most people call junk.

Scraps of wood, metal, and things nobody wants. Arzan gives them life again, makes them something. He calls them ‘Scraptures’. “They’re not perfect, not polished, not meant to look ‘right’. They’re raw… Messy, but real,” he says.

The ‘Face of the Future’, made with Blum’s Tandem runners for a exhibition in Mumbai late last year was not some sleek, glossy vision of tomorrow. It’s a face, but not really. It’s stuck in the present, caught between two places: between the past and the future. You look at it, and it doesn’t feel fully human. But it does.

Arzan talks about his work simply, but you can hear the depth. “For decades, I’ve used industrial materials to tell human stories,” he says. “With this piece, I wanted to take Blum’s Tandem runners — these beautifully engineered, hidden fittings — and make them part of something bigger. “

How’s technology affecting humans? What’s the cost of all of this? What are we really becoming? Because we don’t know. We're caught up and too busy to realize. And sometimes, we need art to remind us of that.